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To: Former Fetus

It’s a scam. You browsed a website that’s running a script that is trying to trick you into downloading a malicious program. (Note that you may not have gone to the site deliberately; it could have been passed to your computer via an ad on an otherwise legitimate page you browsed.)

Press ctl-alt-del and click the Task Manager button. Find the browser on the Applications tab and close it from there. Also, go to the Processes tab and check that the browser isn’t shown as running there. If it is, kill it there as well. If you still have problems, reboot the machine.


67 posted on 01/02/2010 9:52:24 AM PST by Redcloak ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Redcloak; Former Fetus
I think Redcloak has the most likely answer to what happened. I've had it happen to me on sites that Google uses Adsense and Analytics on.
82 posted on 01/03/2010 9:13:32 PM PST by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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