 Poster: A snowHead
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I opened a link in Stanton's post, and was presented with a pop-up window, purportedly emanating from Mozilla Firefox, that told me I was under attack and listing six viruses. It invited me to click on something to remove them. I didn't. Instead, I closed the pop-up, and closed the browser window, and ran an AVG scan. AVG reported no viruses. What should I make of that?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Disable pop-ups in your web browser, that should solve the problem. Unless you actually believe the pop-up?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Same thing happened to me!
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You need to Login to know who's really who.
You need to Login to know who's really who.
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prob a hijacker get malwarebytes and run a scan AV's dont always pick up all Malware.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It is probably the Muslims.
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You'll need to Register first of course.
You'll need to Register first of course.
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A common style of "naughty" website (or a compromised website) puts up a message saying you have a virus (even though there is none) and inviting you to install their anti-virus software. Their software is, of course, not anti-virus but it probably install their own software that compromises your computer by installing a virus or other nasty software. Another instance of you should only install software from places you trust.
I would suggest running your trusted virus checker every day for the next few days, also to watch your computer for any unusual behaviour. Maybe run task-manager and look for programs you do not know or for network activity when the computer is otherwise not meant to be doing anything.
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Download Malwarebytes to a usb stick, boot your PC in safe mode and install and run/scan the Malware application. As above, AV does not always pick these spyware programs up.
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Microsoft Security Essentials is my Windoze AV of choice.
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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It turned out I already had mbam on the computer. I ran a quick scan. Again nothing. I'll run a full scan at bedtime. Meanwhile I am not going to open any links posted by stanton.
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I might be returning to Chrome anyway. I downloaded a Flash update today, and Chrome seems to be working OK at the moment. It seems to be faster than Firefox, and it has a cleaner presentation.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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It'll be a compromised website, trying to trick you in to installing malware. Some of those are particularly clever too.
Funny when I get a windows looking popup telling me I have 6 windows viruses... on my Linux PC 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| planeurge wrote: |
| It turned out I already had mbam on the computer. I ran a quick scan. Again nothing. I'll run a full scan at bedtime. Meanwhile I am not going to open any links posted by stanton. |
I'm willing to bet a million pounds, an actual million pounds, that this wasn't any wrongdoing on the part of stanton.
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| Mr Technique wrote: |
| planeurge wrote: |
| It turned out I already had mbam on the computer. I ran a quick scan. Again nothing. I'll run a full scan at bedtime. Meanwhile I am not going to open any links posted by stanton. |
I'm willing to bet a million pounds, an actual million pounds, that this wasn't any wrongdoing on the part of stanton. |
but not opening any of his links is right on so many levels
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You know it makes sense.
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I opened the link just fine, no problems other than the article being average.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I am not sure I did mean to imply wrongdoing. I think I meant just an injudicious choice of websites. And Elle_J says they had the same experience.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Oh, and crashwave shock has just flashed again. So it's back to Firefox.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Has anybody looked at the new googlemail package. Worth spending a couple of minutes on, it might be the future of email.
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