| Virus announcement [message #304814] |
Wed, 03 August 2016 08:54  |
Oldngray
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The upper left corner of the web page has a "1 new message " statement, when I opened it I had a blue screen of death and smaller page that announced a virus alert. Tried to close and could not, did turn off machine and rebooted. Same Message still there.
Richard MacDonald
Punta Gorda, Florida
Sold our TZE April 2015
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| Re: Virus announcement [message #304816 is a reply to message #304814] |
Wed, 03 August 2016 09:04  |
tphipps
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Ouch! Hope that you have it solved by now. If not, immediately disconnect the computer from the Internet. If you cannot disconnect, turn your router off. Attempt a 'three finger salute' and see if you can 'rewind' back to a known good point. If the does not work, attempt to interrupt booting by hitting the 'F2' key. Do you have a rescue disk? These are getting very difficult to kill off.
Tom, MS II
2012 Phoenix Cruiser model 2552
KA4CSG
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| Re: [GMCnet] Virus announcement [message #304823 is a reply to message #304817] |
Wed, 03 August 2016 10:29 |
Keith V
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On Windows right click on the start bar, select task manager and kill the browser task ( Explorer, Firefox, chrome)
Do not restore pages when it restarts!
You can also press Windows + X to get a menu with task manager on it
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> On a Mac you hold down Esc, Option and the command key This shows open programs. Quit your browser. Then restart your browser while holding down the shift key and it gets rid of the virus problem.
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> Emery Stora
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>> On Aug 3, 2016, at 7:54 AM, Richard MacDonald wrote:
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>> The upper left corner of the web page has a "1 new message " statement, when I opened it I had a blue screen of death and smaller page that announced
>> a virus alert. Tried to close and could not, did turn off machine and rebooted. Same Message still there.
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>> --
>> Richard MacDonald
>> Punta Gorda, Florida
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>> Sold our TZE April 2015
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| Re: Virus announcement [message #304829 is a reply to message #304816] |
Wed, 03 August 2016 12:05 |
Oldngray
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Tom,
Do you see what I am talking about? Just under the Blue GMCforum Banner I see a message in blue "(You have 2 new messages) Under that it says "Free app that lets you easily check new messages"
If I click on that I get the blue screen of death along with notice that my computer has a virus. No matter what I do to eliminate these messages new ones keep coming up. The message tells me to Not turn off my computer.
I did turn off and reboot without a problem but believe this is some kind of scam.
Richard MacDonald
Punta Gorda, Florida
Sold our TZE April 2015
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| Re: [GMCnet] Virus announcement [message #304834 is a reply to message #304829] |
Wed, 03 August 2016 12:59 |
Keith V
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It is a scam.
It is a way to get people to pay money to the company so they can tell them to turn the computer off then back on.
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> Tom,
> Do you see what I am talking about? Just under the Blue GMCforum Banner I see a message in blue "(You have 2 new messages) Under that it says "Free
> app that lets you easily check new messages"
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> If I click on that I get the blue screen of death along with notice that my computer has a virus. No matter what I do to eliminate these messages new
> ones keep coming up. The message tells me to Not turn off my computer.
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> I did turn off and reboot without a problem but believe this is some kind of scam.
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> Richard MacDonald
> Punta Gorda, Florida
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> Sold our TZE April 2015
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| Re: [GMCnet] Virus announcement [message #304837 is a reply to message #304834] |
Wed, 03 August 2016 13:27 |
larry.whisler
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Your are correct, it is a scam.
I have reported that ad to google many, many times and it still appears.
Google doesn't seem to give a damn about it or the company is continuing to
change the billing and address location.
Maybe Eugene can do something about it.
It's about as bad as the credit card scam on Costco converting from
American Express to CITI phone calls that I keep getting.
If you get one from 855-805-5486, it's a scam.
larry
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| Re: [GMCnet] Virus announcement [message #304859 is a reply to message #304829] |
Wed, 03 August 2016 19:24 |
Rob
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That's an ad (albeit a scam ad, originating from Google AdSense) - it has very little to do with the GMC forum… It likely originates at the web hosting end.
I don't see these ads on my network - I block all ad URL's at my firewalls…
The blue screen you are seeing is likely not truly a "MS blue screen of death", it's like a browser redirect that is trying to make you think it's worse than it is (although some of these can be difficult to remove) by showing you a fake BSoD.
If a person insists on running Windoze, Malwarebytes is your friend! More often than not, it will clean these redirect problems:
https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-browser-redirect-virus/
But the best method: don't click on them in the first place!
Rob
Victoria, BC
76 Royale - Rear Twins/Dry Bath
On 2016-08-03, at 10:05 AM, Richard MacDonald wrote:
> Tom,
> Do you see what I am talking about? Just under the Blue GMCforum Banner I see a message in blue "(You have 2 new messages) Under that it says "Free
> app that lets you easily check new messages"
>
> If I click on that I get the blue screen of death along with notice that my computer has a virus. No matter what I do to eliminate these messages new
> ones keep coming up. The message tells me to Not turn off my computer.
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> I did turn off and reboot without a problem but believe this is some kind of scam.
>
> --
> Richard MacDonald
> Punta Gorda, Florida
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> Sold our TZE April 2015
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