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To: jonatron; All

A few days ago I was reading an AOL news article (I think). To the right was a brief announcement the Trump was dead. I clicked on that and all kinds of weird red and other messages came on warning me. I tried to get of click red X, etc. But nothing worked. Then I called in my computer guru who after a few minutes was finally able to get rid of this page. He made sure I had not tried to click anything other than the red X. Anyone get anything like that?


16 posted on 11/15/2016 12:53:37 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

I clicked on one of those web page links to see “...shocking photos...” and was sent to some Facebook page that had a picture of Clint Eastwood with text underneath “...gone at 84...”, so I clicked on that click-bait and WHAM! got a page similar to the one you got, that spoofed a Microsoft web site and claxon horns and sirens were screaming while a digitized voice said “...a malicious virus has been detected on your computer. You must allow our technician to access your computer to make it safe on our network...”. Clicking on the red X to close the window did nothing. I had to use Task Manager to stop that process. I scanned my computer with Norton afterward and Norton found no virus.


31 posted on 11/15/2016 2:28:28 PM PST by Auntie Dem (Hey! Hey! Ho! Ho! Terrorist lovers gotta go!)
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