Pet Talk Issue

**Karen** · 08-23-2009, 10:01 PM

To clarify, Paul took out the bit of code that puts the ads on the pages. So, in one sense, we hope that was it - because you said it happened to you when you were on the home page, that was what made us suspect that. Everyone, do let us know if it happens to you again, we are trying to track this down. If taking the ad code out stops it, we will have to contact the advertising agency, and inform them of the problem.

Because it seems to happen sporadically, do let us know if it happens to any of you!

**Karen** · 08-23-2009, 10:59 PM

Just bumping this up, so everyone sees it!

**blue** · 08-23-2009, 11:10 PM

Heck I was thinking my IP got banned. Im happy to see that isnt the case.

**krazyaboutkatz** · 08-23-2009, 11:43 PM

Thanks for alerting us. Hopefully you got rid of whatever was causing this. I've had this problem a few times while on Facebook but I knew it was something fake so I quickly closed the link without clicking on it.

**Whisk_Luva** · 08-24-2009, 02:19 AM

Ah, I had that pop-up twice in 2 days.... I thought it was just my pc....

Glad it is (hopefully) fixed now.

**Karen** · 08-24-2009, 02:50 AM

Well, do clear your cache and your cookies, and let us know if it happens again, okay?

**Hellow** · 08-24-2009, 05:28 AM

Funny, I never have gotten anything like anyone was mentioning. Although that would have made for a *hilarious* screenshot.

**momoffuzzyfaces** · 08-24-2009, 08:31 AM

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** · 08-24-2009, 09:49 AM

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.