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.