That’s strange. I got an unknown screen popped up on me a few minutes ago and said it was running a virus scan (not my brand). I quickly unplugged the computer to stop it and am now running mine. I think “they” might be nervous about this subject.
That’s strange. I got an unknown screen popped up on me a few minutes ago and said it was running a virus scan (not my brand). I quickly unplugged the computer to stop it and am now running mine. I think “they” might be nervous about this subject.
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I did, too. My Norton screen popped up to alert me to the invader. High Risk. It was from: clicks or click overview.
About stopped my ‘puter.
I had the same thing happen to me yesterday as well... Although I don’t believe I had FR open at the time (it could’ve been in one of the background tabs though....).
Did any of you figure out what it was? I’ve run my virusscan and can’t find anything, and I pulled up the Desktop manager to see what was running the second time it happened and didn’t find anything odd in the list of services, programs or processes.
If there are four of us here saying this happened to them it would seem that it’s more than coincidence. Either some kind of “bug” making the rounds, or more likely some “bug” that’s been directed towards us, or a site we’ve all visited.
I’m not technically adept enough to figure out more than my suspicions. I’ll be very interested if any of you come across an explanation for it though.
http://www.linux.com/download_linux/ I cannot for the LIFE of me figure out why people would put up with the kind of foolishness MS allows, especially with Mepis Linux being so brain dead simple nowadays.
BTW, if you are already infected with one of the later virus variants, running your virus scan won't do you much good. Better to make yourself a bootable floppy, install fprot on it, boot from the floppy and let it go.
On the other hand, you should know that surfing the web with IE and activeX enabled (one of the stupidest things someone can do) will enable you simply drop by a site and have a popup telling you "you have picked up a virus, would you like to delete it" or something like you got which tells you it is "scanning" and then asks you if you would like to "remove the virus." If you click "yes" on the dialogue box, THAT is when your problems start. You really don't need to unplug your computer (smile). Just exit your browser. I would highly recommend using Opera, Firefox with noscript, or google chrome if you insist on using windows as an OS.
For your average semi retired freeper, who only uses the computer to surf, post, email, and send pics of the grandkids, linux is all you would ever need, it is free, virus resistant, stable, and secure..., if you ever get tired of wasting half your computing power running idiotic virus sweeps and malware protection.
For what all that is worth........