Pet Talk Issue

**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.

**sasvermont** · 08-24-2009, 05:52 PM

I have been getting messages about malware as well. That's what the spyware software is suppose to do.

**mrspunkysmom** · 08-25-2009, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

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.

I have AVG and it didn't block it for me. However, I only got hit twice. I didn't ahve to shut down the computer but I did have ot close down IE. Or rather the attack shut down Ie when I shut it down.

**Karen** · 08-25-2009, 08:30 PM

Oh, maybe you need an updated version of AVG? Something you might want to check. And you might as well run a scan on your machine, just in case.

We are so sorry this happened to anyone.

**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.