Originally Posted by virtualbernie
Originally Posted by craftiladi
Originally Posted by kygirl
I need to join this club also. Sat. I was PMing someone and a message came up that I had been attacked by virus and I must buy this brand of antivirus. This crazy screen blocked me from my real antivirus(cybernet)so I could not run a scan. After I unplugged everything and reconnected it seemed fine. I contacted the Admin, he suggested it might be adware. So off to the store, bought a new repair antivirus finally got it installed, 'puter' been working fine since. Hope to never have this happen again.
Oh my goodness I purposedly came here to ask for help as this very thing happened to me over the weekend, now i can't get rid of these stupid ad pop ups...so annoying...I will keep on eye on this thread.
thanks.
p.s.
I don't use norton, I use avast and when i ran a scan it showed nothing.
thanks for the knowledgable quilters.
That sounds like malware which hit my daughters 2 laptops. You'll need something like PC Tools--McAfee didn't pick it up and neither did Norton when my cousin had it on her computer. It took her 8 continuous hours to clean it up! She sent me this link,
http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=35407 to get rid of that. Good luck to you!
Thanks so much for the above link....for now all seems to be well...well for me as long as i can nagvigate around..lol I did save the above link. Thanks again. Amazing group we have here.