Aha. It sounds like a banner popped up with one of those fake warning. Since you allowed the installation from the pop-up window, you've just installed software that may have infected your computer. If nothing else, it's scamware.
Next time that happens, after you've done a cleanup and uninstalled whatever it installed in the add/remove programs control panel, just go to the task manager and kill that window. If you're using IE, get the latest version and have it block pop-ups. Or turn on the pop-up blocker in Firefox, whatever you're using. It's all trash advertising anyway. Joy From: "Thom _>^o.o^<" <[email protected]> Reply-To: Paper Models <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:40:01 -0600 To: Paper Models <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Papermodels II 41147] Re: Speaking of Advent Calendars The problem I experienced was, AVG gave a warning. Then a pop-up, from some other, unkown anti-virus claiming that I had all the nasties in my puter. It then asked for me to scan immediately, when I clicked no, then it wanted install some type of anti-virus, without the option to click no, so I allowed the install. I've had this done to me in the past, several time. When I didn't have puter knowledge, I ended up getting a bunch of trojans, worms, and such other nasties, then was sending personal info. I tried to get my anti-virus program to clean out the mess but, ended up having to reinstall the operating system, which took several hours to reinstall updates and programs. I guess I should have written a better note about what I experienced when visited the link. Might have been that someone cracked the site? I wouldn't want someone to have to go through the problems I've experianced in the past. If my anti-virus program pops up a warning, I then will not try to go on through the link. Just trying to help others that don't have such computer knowledge. I hope this will help people without the knowledge, for Identity theft is what these people want from you. It's with this type of experience I hope others will take to heart. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Joy Cohn <[email protected]> wrote: > I had no problem either - could you have accidentally clicked the banner? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/papermodels?hl=en.
