Virus Popup!

[tasksgirl]

Hey I hope this gets seen right away..
Someone in Laurel's chat today mentioned something about a virus pop-up.. I thought she was maybe wrong and maybe it was her computer but now it did it to me right now too.. when I first went to I2us on the home page.. it's popped up twice so far.. it's one of those "Do you want to scan your computer" things but the fake ones

[losguerra]

Weird...here's the crazy part. When I use the search box here on i2us, I get the list of results like usual, but if I click on any of them, I get a popup for a virus scan, too! Very fake because it's for Windows XP and I'm on a Mac. It's really weird that Laurel's site is having the same type of issue.

[Marie]

ok let me look into it

I used the search and everything is fine on my end.

Get adaware and spybot and scan your computer with both of those.

[losguerra]

Here's the site that I'm getting redirected to when I click those links:

http://virus9-webscanner.com/2009/1/_freescan.php?aid=880147

[MMGCA]

Task the other day I got a message through messenger from you, it asked me to look at some videos, I never clicked on it, because it was something bad,

I did't think you send them did you??

not long ago, one of my coworkers got one, and she clicked on it and it turn out it was a virus, and messed up her computer, so you should unistal you messeger. I dont know if any body has gotten something like this??

[tasksgirl]

Oh the MSN thing is something different.. thats been going around forever..

It wasn't Laurels site that had the problem- the person in her chat was referring to I2us .. yeah I also got it a minute ago when searching

I can't run anything because I'm at work and this is my work comp I don't think we have the privelages to run that stuff it just goes automatically..



Here's the site that I'm getting redirected to when I click those links:

http://virus9-webscanner.com/2009/1/_freescan.php?aid=880147

Same here

[MARIPLAY]

OMG ..

i barely got in ..I had to go and look for and old message ..but i get the same virus

[jeannie]

Great. Now I'm scared. Why can't they leave us alone!:mad: Years ago, in my computer class, my teacher said that he had a theory, that the same people who fixing the computers are the ones who send virus so they would never be out of a job. Who knows.....
Thanks for the warning, Task.

[MMGCA]

How do you guys get this??

[Amanda A]

It happened to me today. I think I looked at it. Now my computer has been acting weird.. Does anyone know what I can do?

[monki12]

amanda, do you have a virus protection? like Symetec or Macfee, something like that? if so scan your computer and the service can see if it was a virus or not.

[Cherokee]

I got that message too just now! I have a mac though

[MMGCA]

Well I guess its good, but how come i dont get it??

[tasksgirl]

It doesn't come up all the time.. I only got it those 2 times

[MMGCA]

Oh Well like i said its good, I do have nortorn antivirus or something like that. I hope everyones computer is alright!

[losguerra]

It happened to me today. I think I looked at it. Now my computer has been acting weird.. Does anyone know what I can do?

I don't use Windows XP, but if I recall correctly, here would be one way of dealing with whatever got on your computer. Hopefully someone more experienced in de-virus-ing PCs will clarify if necessary.

1) Go to Start ---> Search ---> "For files and folders"

2) Click the green arrow next to "All Files and folders"

3) Leave all the fields blank, but go to the one that says "When was it modified"

4) Click in the "Specified Dates" area, and then on the pull-down menu, select "Created Date". This will look for any file created (downloaded) today.

5) Put in today's date, and click "search".

6) You should get a list of all the stuff downloaded today, and if a virus was downloaded, it should be on that list.

From here there are a few methods. The simplest would be to just delete everything on that list of "created today" files. But you'd want to be careful not to delete anything you purposely downloaded or created.

A lot of viruses wrap their tentacles around the computer so well that even when you think they've been deleted, they're still there. The other way would be to keep that window open and go into your installed software box and see if anything matches the files downloaded today. You could uninstall whatever it is. But again, sometimes these viruses create new programs out of themselves and it's hard to trace everything completely.

I hope you can figure out how to get rid of it!

[simply-heartfelt]

This is the google search option..... not the actual forum search option. Is that where it happened to you also Tasks?

[Amanda A]

I found it and deleted it! I hope this helps. I should of never did that

[simply-heartfelt]

Found what and deleted what? Should have never done what?

[MMGCA]

why not simlpy??

[Marie]

I'm looking into this more

[losguerra]

Found what and deleted what? Should have never done what?

I think she was referring to this:
It happened to me today. I think I looked at it. Now my computer has been acting weird.. Does anyone know what I can do?

[simply-heartfelt]

why not simlpy??

Huh Viri????
Edit:
I think she was referring to this:

Thanks Amy!

[lisa7078]

I had the same thing happen to me at work, but not at home. We even have a anti virus program on the computer at work - so I don't know, I hope nothing happens.

[MMGCA]

Huh Viri????
Edit:


Thanks Amy!

sorry jejeje miss typo.....lol

was it bad that amanda deleted that?

[Laura]

By the way, I ran adaware and spybot scans today and nothing came up.

[Marie]

I think it's the google ads. Sometimes that happens. I took them off and you guys should (i think) all be on default theme.

I need to go but the search thing won't change until the search engines recrawl our webspace.

bare with me, it's going to be a long night.

[tasksgirl]

ohh so THAT'S why my theme changed .. lol

[losguerra]

It's funny, I changed to the default theme, probably 2 minutes before Marie switched us all. So I was like "What is she talking about?" for a few minutes after I saw her message. :p I'm slow sometimes...

[Amanda A]

I had to do a system restore to fix my computer. It only happens if you search for I2US through google.

[lisa7078]

Or through yahoo. I tried it with typing the website directly into the address bar and that worked!

[tasksgirl]

Are the site themes back yet? If they are I can't find them lol

[simply-heartfelt]

Nope not yet!

[Marie]

not yet. I'm waiting until i add everything back to this one...but it's finals week.

[simply-heartfelt]

not yet. I'm waiting until i add everything back to this one...but it's finals week.


Good luck on your finals Marie!!!!!