[entropy12]

When I click on "New posts to you" I get above message about malware ahead! What is the correct solution?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Are you logged in?

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

I had a popup blocked on FR yesterday. i ignored it and moved on, but then thought, WTH? I should have checked to see who it was.

[MEG33]

Nothing here alerted..but I don’t get pinged to the same posts perhaps..Just don’t click on the link so designated.

[Mr. K]

It may be local to your computer too

Run a scan using MalwareBytes.com (free) software and also make sure your anti-virus is up to date and run a full scan with that- do it before you go to bed and let it run all night if it has to

I use www.avast.com and have NEVER had a problem - it is my favorite (and the home version is also free)

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

:: message about malware ahead! ::

Uhhhh....
don’t
click
on
it
?

[RedMDer]

Try checking your browser options. You may need to disable some add-ons. I had a similar thing happen, did that and now it’s OK.

[Domandred]

It’s a guilty by association warning that browsers and virus shields have been doing lately.

Someone posts a picture or a link from another site. The picture or link itself doesn’t have malware on it, but the parent site somewhere does. Their malware is probably embedded in an advertisement script or possibly a file download, neither of which you’ll actually get on Free Republic through the link. Parent site gets a flag and then Free Republic gets a flag in the message that the picture or link was used in.

Nothing really to be alarmed about.

[Admin Moderator]

There were two comments with hotlinks to lolpresident.com, one from Monday, one from 2009. Both have been removed.

[TomGuy]

Run some of the malware checker programs.

Then, reboot.

Sometimes, errant material from web pages get lock into the cache. Rebooting should clear that out.

[Hot Tabasco]

I had a problem with my Avast which was constantly giving me a virus warning. I searched the internet and was directed to a program that got installed on my computer. Once I deleted that program, the problem was solved.

I don't know how it got installed but I suspect it was either bundled in with a freeware program I downloaded and subsequently deleted OR it came with my latest version of Avast that was updated recently....