Comuter hackers

[kenny]

comuter hackers

I was just googling something in another tab while surfing and I took a link to what I thought was a food page. All of a sudden a window poped up up that said it was my virus checker telling me I had 5 Trojans and needed to click OK to delete. But something looked amiss.

I closed all tabs and and found a hidden window asking for permission to DL something for my AVG antivirus. I closed that as well. Then ran a full scan with AVG. No virus detected and no Downloads available.

Best I can figure is that site Identified my virus shield and put up that window to try and trick me into DL'g a Trojan. Cant to too careful with this kind of stuff. Just a heads up to anyone else who has never seen something like that before. It would have been easy to get fooled with that one.

 

[Creepy Lurker]

It's possible that you've been infected by something like the infamous 'AntiVirus Pro' malware. It pops up 'security warnings' telling you about all the viruses you (don't) have and then tries to get you to buy their software to fix it.

AVG doesn't tend to pick it up, so you might want to scanning with:
SpyBot Search & Destroy
and/or
Malware Bytes

 

[Cog]

I had a similar incident and this pop-up showed my c:\ drive being scanned for viruses and finding some. Which I found really funny - because I use Linux and it does not have a c:\ drive.

What I find disturbing is the impact it has on a lot of people being compelled to jump into something they don't need or want

Linux is free too

 

[Guest]

i've had this too.. the warning kept popping up continually despite me closing the box down every time.. turned out to be exactly what Creepy mentions - a site which tries to scare you by saying you're infected and need urgent anti virus scanning...basically they're just trying to sell you their product..

Spybot Search & Destroy is brilliant, definitely worth downloading (it's free) and running at least once a week.

 

[Creepy Lurker]

I had a similar incident and this pop-up showed my c:\ drive being scanned for viruses and finding some. Which I found really funny - because I use Linux and it does not have a c:\ drive.

What I find disturbing is the impact it has on a lot of people being compelled to jump into something they don't need or want

Linux is free too

Warning!

A Scan of your machine has determined that '/dev/null' has been infected by 23 viruses!