Pet Talk Issue

[momoffuzzyfaces]

This happened to me yesterday. I was adding pics to my thread about the momma kat's babies. All was fine until I clicked preview post. Then my PT screen went away and a big screen with all sorts of scary things popped up. It said I had 104 worms, 400+ trojans, and tons of virus.

It scared me so bad I was shaking. I called my bro who is a computer whiz. He said it sounded like one of those things that some people put on wanting you to load a program of theirs down and then charge you. (or just want to give you a virus)

He had me turn my computer off. Then run a complete system scan with my anit-virus software when I rebooted. Not a single virus, worm, or trojan or anything else showed up.

I got an email from Slick yesterday saying her computer is infected. I wonder if she's getting this same thing? Should we send her an email and ask? Yes, and I will right now.

[Freckles]

July 24th I started having problems with "Smart Defender Pro" Took a couple of days before my antivirus software could fix the problem.

August 21st I got the message "Symantecs Service Framework has encountered a problem and needs to close." That resolved in a couple of days.

Yesterday I got MOFF's problem: "Then a big screen with all sorts of scary things popped up. It said I had 104 worms, 400+ trojans, and tons of virus." Fortunately, a restart solved the problem.

I didn't tie any of these to PetTalk, but I'll definitely be alert now.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

I got some sort of anti-spyware thing a couple days ago too. I just closed out IE and started over.

[king2005]

This is the same thing that has been happening on FB for the past few months. its a BAD ad!! FB has caught it as I haven't seen it in weeks, but it sure was annoying.

[smokey the elder]

It sounds like the ad itself is a piece of malware.

[Karen]

So has it happened to anyone on Pet Talk today?

Smokey the elder, the problem is that we are not sure which ad, as the agency serves different ones. If it does not happen to anyone over the next day, we will contact the ad agency and have them scour their own ad server ...

[Edwina's Secretary]

It happened to me yesterday. I opened PT, it shut down and I was told I had all these worms and viruses.

I was suspicious...especially as it said I had worms in Shared Directory - in which I have no files.

So I shut down and rebooted.

I was chatting with Barbara at the time and she suggested shutting down with either Ctrl F4 or Alt F4? I don't remember which.

[Pinot's Mom]

It happened to me last night. It was a pain in the butt to get off my screen, but I knew what it was - it's basically a scary pop up ad for an anti malware site.

[Karen]

Was that before or after we shut Pet Talk down?

[Edwina's Secretary]

For me it was before you shut down and it was on the first page.

[pomtzu]

It happened to me last night. It was a pain in the butt to get off my screen, but I knew what it was - it's basically a scary pop up ad for an anti malware site.

What had me concerned, is that I couldn't stop it from running and had to completely shut my system down. It made me rather paranoid for a while regarding my bank and credit card info, but nothing has been compromised.

[slick]

My home PC has become infected with the FAKE Trojan. For the past few days I am getting numerous pop ups asking me to install Windows Malicious Software Tool. It looks real - it is a Security Alert but experience told me "yah, right!". I have been working on my PC for days and I think I may have it cleaned now, but not sure.

I have a palm sized 500GB external hard drive and have been saving all my files, emails, favourites just in case I have to rebuild it at some point.

Alt/F4 is our friend. If any of you get any unusual pop ups, Alt/F4 will get you out if it safely.

BTW, none of my pop ups happened when I was in PT.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

No problems at all for me today. My problem was before you shut Pet Talk down yesterday.

[gini]

Just to add my two cents - I had the same attack yesterday morning.
At first it was very frightening - but on a closer look - it just seemed "fake". It said my computer was being attacked right at that moment.
I re-booted and ran a full scan and CA found and quarantined two files.

I had an email from Slick as well, but I didn't want to respond to her in case it was coming from my computer.

All of this was before you shut down, Karen. I was on Pet Talk, but I was all over the forum - so I cannot pinpoint where I was when it started.

I have run several scans since then and nothing has come up and none of my personal files and data are compromised.

I would love to get a hold of the people that originate this stuff and they would need a lot more than Pet Talk prayers.

[kokopup]

I had scan program come up again today saying my computer was infected with malware and I needed to scan my computer. It was not an alert from any of my antivirus software.

I stopped the process and then ran CCleaner to find everything that was on my computer. CCleaner found the culprit so I deleted it from my harddrive. I think I got it when running a video from Pet Talk that installed something before showing the video. Normally when I run videos nothing is installed before the video starts.