Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Hey Phil - more about virus
Date:	2/3/2020 11:55:22 AM

I got in touch with McAffee and found out what is going on.  What I am getting is a pop-up advertising window so McAffee doesn't stop it.  tech support walked me through changing a couple of setting within MS edge to help but most importantly taught me how to get out of it with out having to reboot.  Has been a real pain in the ass, and the ears at times because it would emit a high pitched squeal along with the alert.  There are a couple of different versions of it and it seems to get more aggressive over time, but that could just be my patience running thin.  I did call the number though just to cuss them like the low life dogs they are once I knew it was just a call center trying to scam me for money to"fix" my computer.  It was very cathartic...lol.  I looked up a couple of Indian (red dot, not skin) insults to throw at them too. 

I was baffled because my McAffee kept telling me I had no threats and was safe but it keeps happening.  But now I know how to work around.  It seem to happen a lot on Whatfinger but has happened a time or two on other sites.  I may be partially to blame too because sometimes out of sheer boredom I will succumb to click bait items just enough to get the gist of the story.  I have a lot of spare time this time of year and can only play so much solitaire...lol.

Name:	Talullahhound -	Reply
Subject:	Hey Phil - more about virus
Date:	2/3/2020 12:01:07 PM

I've been getting it too.  I have found the only solution is to shut down the computer and wait for an hour or so for it to clear.  I know it is a scam and it tries to make it seem like it is a Microsoft warning.  I have McAfee too and it never shows it as a virus

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Hey Phil - more about virus
Date:	2/3/2020 1:17:25 PM (updated 2/3/2020 1:17:44 PM)

often when I see those I use ctrl-alt-del and launch taskmanager and kill the web browser.

Part of the reason I am not seeing those is that I use ad-blocker plus - many news sites require you to white list them to be able to view stuff because they want to get paid for the ad.

Chrome w/Ad blocker plus has been good to me, and stops much of the insanity.  It is nice because it shows you a count of the crap blocked per webpage ( as I am typing Lakes online is only 3) I have seen major national news sites up in the 20-30 range, it is amazing the crap you get from legit sources vs the old days when you could count on the viruses and scams on mostly porn sites.  Used to make decent money just doing nothing but cleaning up machines after someone went to a porn site that was loaded with viruses.

Wierdest one I ever had dealings with was a ad on the WSJ that linked back to China and loaded up a fun java script virus down on an someone.  He was growling about never going to bad sites etc.  when we found the virus and inspected the origins he was shocked he got it from the WSJ.  They had sold the ad space that pointed out to a http:// web address - it probably was legit till someone later changed the web address to somewhere in China.

Name:	Lifer -	Reply
Subject:	Hey Phil - more about virus
Date:	2/3/2020 7:12:36 PM

I was rebooting also but you don't have to.  MacAffee taught me how to initiate the task manager and just highlight your browser in the list and choose kill task.  All you have to do is restart the browser.  you can also access it with Control alt delete like Phil suggested.  It had me baffled for  awhile.  When I knew it was BS was when one of the messages told me my Norton Antivirus had expired.  Since I have never had Norton I knew it was BS and decided to contact McAffee, whch turned out to be not such an easy task in itself.  But I am confident now that I have no worries, just a few extra keystrokes and it is done.  

Name:	phil -	Reply
Subject:	Hey Phil - more about virus
Date:	2/4/2020 8:12:41 AM

Scareware - used to be a similar one that used to go around screaching sirens at you and had a message that you could not close that Microsft detected a virus and gave you a phone number to call for them to fix it.  They would convince you that you had a virus because of a system file buried in the windows folder that had a icon of a teddy bear  - which was legit.