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| Author | Topic : virus or malware pop up |
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Chamberlain Joined 7/08/2004
Posts : 148
| Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 - 03:12 Had a virus or malware pop up on me here last night trying to re-direct, me-anybody else affected or see this before? This is a first here for me, being WOL is my favorite site I hope it was the last or just a fluke? |
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Trotsky Joined 13/07/2009
Posts : 254
| Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 - 03:42 So far, no problems here. |
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TaurusRex  Joined 14/06/2002
Posts : 9462
| Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 - 05:26 Before I got McAfee, some viruses were getting through the protection I had a while ago.
rex |
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TaurusRex Joined 14/06/2002
Posts : 9462
| Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 - 07:03 I didn't read this, but there's been mention of this other day:
" www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/technolog/what-know-july-9-internet-doomsday-arrives-869336 "
Think it might be relevant?
Hope not.
rex |
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RUFF RYDER Joined 5/08/2008
Posts : 315
| Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 - 08:06 yeah i had the same thing happen to me yesterday morning |
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Chamberlain Joined 7/08/2004
Posts : 148
| Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 - 13:45 Thanks for your replies n info!
I closed it so fast but I believed it said WINDOWS 7 has detected a VIRUS on this page and "Click" here to rectify the issue-I closed it-killed my connection and then it Popped up-YOU SURE YOU WANT TO NAVIGATE FROM THIS PAGE? Ran My AV an AM and found nothing? Im sure the "Redirect" would have been deadly tho..... |
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Chamberlain Joined 7/08/2004
Posts : 148
| Posted : Monday, 9 July 2012 - 13:56 Yes Rex-that was 600,000 comp. infected world wide, many will lose their connection if they havent checked that site you listed!
You can check it yourself by {RUN com/ipconfig /all} and compare your DSN numbers to theirs. |
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TaurusRex Joined 14/06/2002
Posts : 9462
| Posted : Thursday, 12 July 2012 - 23:18 After 1:00 am this morning I wasn't able to connect ...
trouble-shooting was showing DNS something or other and clicking repair wasn't helping;
So I tried running a quick scan with my McAfee, but the last 2% was taking longer than the first 98%;
So I decided before I try anything else I was going to run my defrag tool (it's amazing (let me tell you)).
My thinking was that I had recently installed CivIV and reported errors on some games that were crashing ...
sure enough my auto-update had me install 7 updates and I've got a feeling that the game may have switched me (not sure) from IE 8 to IE 7 because during the quick scan I was seeing IE 7 mentioned a lot ... the updates stopped the crashing of the games btw.
The defrag analysis rarely says that I need to defrag after the first time I used it, but again I saw a few red lines So I ran the defrag anyway and sure enough, here I am ... connection back to normal. 
rex |
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hitmewithit Joined 2/09/2009
Posts : 664
| Posted : Wednesday, 18 July 2012 - 05:17 I dont have any probs with wol ,,but recently i keep getting a notification from norton that it's blocking a malicious attempt called 'fakeapp' something or other ... this occurs with a different site however .. |
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