Pet Talk Issue

[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.

[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.

[Pinot's Mom]

Was that before or after we shut Pet Talk down?

Karen - sorry I didn't answer this - I didn't see it until now. I don't know whether it was before or after, because I didn't know you shut down. I was on somewhere around 11-11:30 PM on Sunday.

[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.