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My Norton anti-virus alerts me to this infrequently when I am in the "work and jobs" forum.

roadracer I followed your link from your second post. I know what everybody here is talking about and honestly there is nothing to worry about -- it's not an attack. It's just another flashy pop-up image and people are gullible enough to look at it and click on it. Also, someone please answer this: if it's in the same window or tab, then can't you just click on the "back" button?

The first time I saw this advertisement, I was on my Mac using Firefox. This ad for malware is absolutely not related directly to I.E. And may I repeat, it is not an attack (nor is any other pop-up ad, to my knowledge).

Bottom line: don't fall for pop-ups.

I don't think it has to do with WP or Google, my computer customers call me about, I tell them the three finger salute, Ctrl-Alt-Delete.

It is one of those things that as often as it is shut down, it gets launched from somewhere else.

It is a bit worse than a pop up, but spreading the word is the best defense.

If you do not know them, nothing coming from the web is to be trusted, nothing is free, except a few things that a little search will tell are real, good, and they are still taking names.

Name and email lists are sold, resold, and that is what these scams work off of.

I constantly get ads from JC Penneys, I have never bought from them, gone to their web site, but they are good for an email a day. I get spam, the Canadians sell any drug you want, and lots of people send "Hi, thinking of you," who have no reason to know I exist.

My Ebay paypal account has been frozen several times, and it looks just like real paypal. They have my email, and say because of fraud I have to click on a link and change my password. I forward it to paypal, they say some of this just runs for hours before changing location, leaving no trace. I respond in seconds, which gives paypal the link while still active.

The virus scam most likely comes from outside the country. The real deal is people who do pay, buy credit card, then that information is sold, and within hours, more is being bought with that information.

From someone who lived in Honduras for a while, who checked with Social Security, he found he was working four jobs, two in Florida, one in Texas, and one in California, all at once, as he was working for cash in New Orleans.

Who knows what part of the population is living by identity theft?

It's getting worse, in my case. It's happening once or twice an hour, which is getting to be really annoying. Anyone else having the same problem?

I haven't had it lately.

Well, I came up with a half-assed solution, but it works.....I went into to my control panel and blocked the Google website, in the privacy section. I don't use Google for my search engine, so hopefully it doesn't become a problem. Time will tell, eh?lol

Nevermind, that didn't work, I just had it happen again.LOL

Been using Firefox since 1.5 - no major problems

I haven't been getting this at all, but by the sound of it it sounds like it's only happening to IE users. I gave up on IE a long time ago, use Google Chrome and Lolifox (spin off of Firefox for the otaku community) for most of my websurfing now.

Try going to BleepingComputer.com and see if it has anything on this particular threat. I know it has a list of fake-virus-scanner malware at least a mile long.

Hi, not to sound like an ass, but nobody even read my post? Did nobody read the OP's second post? He gave us a link with information on the pop-up. Check it out. And I gave information that even while using Firefox on Mac operating system I get the ad (Roxas_XIII, that comment was for you). It's just a pop-up.

Inventor mentioned that it's a bit worse than a pop-up, but I must disagree. The only thing that makes it seem any worse is the overwhelming number of people falling for it. It is deceiving, yes, but it's NOT an instant download. It's NOT an attack. There is NO reason to ctrl-alt-del (I also got the ad on a computer using Windows operating system and I.E. and as far as I remember, I only had to hit the back button).

I'm no hacker or coder, but I can say with confidence and without lying that my experiences with this advertisement were legitimate. This thing is merely a simulation of Windows Explorer with a fake representation of your folders and disk drive information. It's easy to spot if you pay attention to it because it's the same image (with the same speed of "scanning for the virus" and the same typos in the same fake text) every single time. I can easily point out how they made only the "Full system cleanup" button clickable! It's a no-brainer.

The only way to get a virus from this is by accepting the "scan" and installing the virus software itself! Please be careful.

Someone let me know if anything I said is inaccurate.

I've gotten these from almost any and all websites. Only three I haven't gotten these from are WP (ironically), Last.fm and YouTube. I'm using Firefox. I might just have a virus to begin with.

From what I've been told, you can buy a brand new computer and it'll download viruses as soon as you connect to the internet without even opening a browser.

1) Scan your computer for spyware using SUPERAntispyware or Spyware Doctor (Not Recommended for slow computers) under Google Packs and make sure you do a full scan also while removing these viruses, I'd recommend you close you firefox browser, using the Save & Quit so you can return back to the page.

2) Clear all your cookies

3) Clean Temporary Internet Files

Hopefully this should hopefully eliminate these problems.

superboyian

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