I've had 3 or 4 malware infections (well.. I have had one... the kids had the others)...   they all pretended to be antivirus software... and started off by flashing up warnings that I had been infected and then went on to try & get me to pay for their software to remove it.

 

these so called infections were ficticious.

 

the worst one I had then proceeded to disable my antivirus, and then any other program I tried to open, including my internet connection & task manager.

 

It also (& nice touch this)... changed my wallpaper to an ugly green with a dirty great message on it saying "IF YOU DO NOT PAY TO REMOVE THIS INFECTION YOU ARE PUTTING YOUR FAMILY, YOUR FRIENDS & YOUR COLLEAGUES AT RISK"

 

 

You can get rid of Malware infections...  but it can be a right pain in the backside to do it.. and will require another non infected pooter to do it.

 

Ducky had one recently...    Duds sorted hers in a couple of hours.

 

Just to add.....   I got my malware infection using IE..   and its why I won't use it anymore...  its why I changed to Chrome

I got the Malware as well, i would just delete the whole thing and post again.

 

And no its not your fault Baz 

it is deffo wondercliparts dot com - I get a mac malware warning if I go here...

 

http:// wwwdotwonderclipartsdotcom/new_baby/new_baby_graphics_06dotgif

Obviously I have messed about with the link so it is safe here

Z.

I'm not going in there...not even with full armour on!!!

 

Yeah, I was kind of hoping that wouldn't be an issue

Just saw this...but I'm on the bus and can't do anything. I'll have a look when I can--don't delete! And Baz: it's ok *pats hand*. don't stress about it any more!

did you get a seat?

Thanks Lori.... I feel awful.... and today of all days

It is this picture (this is a screen grab mind so safe)

 

 

posted by Sezit .. if they could edit the thread would be safe

 

 

Z.

Dont feel awful  your not to worry lol 

 

*pats Baz's other hand*

phew - thank you - was having a mini melt down in case it was mine - ignore my fb message Zaph 

 

you are a star with your magic safe box of MAC  

I've just been in that thread   I didn't get any warning though (IE) so doing a scan now.

I am absolutely gutted! I had no idea about an infected image as nothing showed up for me! I have now deleted my post and hopefully it will be ok now. So sorry peeps, I really am...........

Poor Baz 

I'm more worried about your pooter being infected now Sezit... 

 

if you haven't got it already...   you might wanna download malwarebytes free  (its free)  & run it on your pooter 

 

http://www.malwarebytes.org/pr...ts/malwarebytes_free

Not your fault Sezit but thanks for deleting the post

 

 

Z.

& sezit... 

 

there is no need to apologise..    you weren't to know!       As Pengy says..   its the barstewards who put this stuff with pictures ... 

 

Sezit.... like the others have said, it's not you fault...... these hacker people need a bliddy good zimmering..... excuse my French

exactly Sezit - you weren't to know  anyone of us could have fallen prey to it and I would thoroughly recommend that you down load Ditty's link for the free anti malaware software - I've got it and am running it now just in case 

Question for those in the know about these things please..... how soon would this thing show up if you have it??? My Mac seems OK. at the moment..............

Ditty, Zaph, and Baz. I have Avast, and nothing showed up when I made the post, so I didn't know.

I thought that image was too good to be true, the evil, dispicable person who did that.

Ahhhhh!

 

you'll be fine Baz.     You have a Mac!!!!

 

built in anti-malware security

 

I dunno if Avast would pick it up Sez..     as I said, I once got infected whilst running AVG free.

 

so far so good though...    if I were you I would download & run malwarebytes to be on the safe side

You've singed my eyebrows with that!

 

Guess you guys don't need me....and yes, Temps, thanks for asking. And no one had to give up their seat for me, either.

Thanks Ditty......Well that's one good thing then.... as I've said before..... I  LOVE  my Mac

Whoops...... thought  you would still be on the Bus

I wanna Mac!

 

I am gonna save up for a Macbook!

I can recommend them...

Whenever a website is discovered to have some badware such as malware on any of its pages, that can be notified to a website called StopBadware.org which is sponsored by Google, Mozilla and others. This website then puts out a warning out so that people searching on Google for instance can see that there is such a warning.

 

It is then down to the infected website to check out if there is a problem, to sort it out if they find a problem, then inform StopBadware.org that their site is clear. Once StopBadware.org is satisfied that the site is clear, the warning is taken down.

 

It is possible to search StopBadware.org for specific websites to get more information. I see that the wondercliparts site was flagged as containing badware only today. It goes into further details and says:

 

Of the 21 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 2 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-06-20, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2011-06-20.

 

As the warning would appear for the site as a whole, it is likely that the photo posted is in fact harmless, it just depends as to whether it came from one of the infected pages.

 

 

I blame Scatts

yeah it's all Scatts fault  

shurrup you..    

 

you have your own congrats thread 

 That'll larn her....

I have run the Malware programme and things seem to be ok, thank goodness. I really hope everyone else is. El Lorro, thankyou for your info. I am grateful to everybody for their help. Thanks again.

 

So I see! 

 

It should have had SPOILER on the front.

 I'm really glad your puter is Ok sezit 

Thank you El Loro

baz, it's not your fault