Pet Talk Issue

[smokey the elder]

This is the first known malware attack I've ever heard of from this site. You and Paul have done a great job keeping it safe for many years!

[RICHARD]

I bought my machine in May and went with the Norton AV free trial, when that expired I bought another Norton program and installed that.

Until recently I would try to attach pics to a post and I would get some kind of warning telling me that I could not post them until I clicked on the warning and then I could go back and put them in like always.

Now, I get a nifty window that pops up and I can get the 'quick reply' window for my PMs. At first I thought it was the AV program because on some sites it tells me to either undo my pop up blocker or I could click on the content and see what was going on.



All the problems seem to have been resolved, but that was really weird and I thought it may have been part of the way I have the AV settings all tightened up. Now I do a weekly defrag and sys scan and everthing seems to work o.k.

Interesting information and I am glad nothing got screwed up on the site.

[Hellow]

Karen, Paul: I would suggest contacting whatever company provides ads for your website and report this specific ad. This can/is affecting other people.

EDIT: I should clarify "other people" as in other communities encountering the same AD that Pet Talk has.

[cassiesmom]

I was getting an ad last week Saturday for one of those programs that purports to rid your PC of viruses and adware - the one that resembles Windows dialog boxes. I ran a full scan with Kaspersky - it picked off some junk and now everything seems fine.

[caseysmom]

I got a virus on my pc at home, luckily I have two pc's.

This happened last Sunday night. It is hosed, I let norton expire for two weeks, I purchased norton at costco but hadn't taken the time to install it. My pc is unusable, I can't even install the norton now since it is infected. I am so frustrated with it my husband it dealing with it.

Norton is gone and all the drives are unusable

[Daisy and Delilah]

I am just seeing this thread. I had the same thing happen to me about 4 or 5 days ago. I didn't pay too much attention to when it was. I was in a panic because it reminded me of the day my computer actually did have a virus a while back. I finally got my virus scan to work after trying to close the popups down--I thought I would never get out of it. I haven't had a problem since then.