Pet Talk Issue

**Pinot's Mom** · 08-24-2009, 01:19 PM

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** · 08-24-2009, 01:34 PM

Was that before or after we shut Pet Talk down?

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-24-2009, 02:41 PM

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

**slick** · 08-24-2009, 03:25 PM

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** · 08-24-2009, 04:20 PM

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

**gini** · 08-24-2009, 05:19 PM

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** · 08-24-2009, 05:35 PM

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.

**Killearn Kitties** · 08-24-2009, 05:40 PM

On both Saturday and Sunday (before PT was shut down) I got a message that AVG had blocked malware. This was as soon as I clicked on the Pet Talk button from the Cat of the Day page. I have had no messages come up since you did the work.

**carole** · 08-24-2009, 06:22 PM

Yes my AVG was picking up a virus too on Pet Talk, it happened to me twice, i was just about to pm Karen when i read this thread, so far nothing else, seems ok now.

**Pinot's Mom** · 08-25-2009, 09:04 AM

Originally Posted by Karen

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.

**anna_66** · 08-25-2009, 09:41 AM

I had it happen a few times in the last week, but nothing so far.

**Karen** · 08-25-2009, 11:09 AM

I am glad to hear it isn't happening to anyone now, do PM me or post if it does!

**Taz_Zoee** · 08-25-2009, 11:30 AM

I'm glad to hear it wasn't my computer. I also called my brother because of strange happenings on my machine. It was Sunday when it happened to me (same thing as kokopup and pomtzu). I thought my computer was going to need a memorial thread.

Thank you Paul and Karen for keeping us safe here in our cyber-world!!

**Karen** · 08-25-2009, 02:51 PM

We are trying to keep it safe, and hope everyone will tell us if any malware pops up ever again! We do not not not want people to have to be afraid of coming to Pet Talk!

**pomtzu** · 08-24-2009, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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.