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Furry Chat => Tech Central => Topic started by: Rocco Rex on May 22, 2017, 05:43:21 PM
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I was browsing Yahoo using Mozilla Firefox as my browser. This is a Windows 8(pretty sure 8.1) laptop that I don't allow Microsoft to update.
Anyway. I was just browsing Yahoo when all of a sudden, without clicking on anything, it changed to a white screen with text. Think I read something about "Zeus Virus" before it changed to a new screen with VERY adult images. By then I had closed the tab. Currently running a Norton virus scan, hasn't detected anything yet.
Anyone know what this is?
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Norton is pretty useless tbh, I wouldn't recommend it at all.
Try using the free version of this one for running a scan and see what it says (it's not an antivirus replacement though!)
https://www.malwarebytes.com/ (https://www.malwarebytes.com/)
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I have to use Norton. dad decrees that we shall use Norton because he's a dumbass, even though I've shown multiple sources saying Norton is garbage
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I have to use Norton. dad decrees that we shall use Norton because he's a dumbass, even though I've shown multiple sources saying Norton is garbage
Ouch, right ..
Well, do try the one I linked and see how that works (it's just a scanner so it won't interfere with norton)
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Keep in mind if you're not experiencing any other symptoms and your AV isn't picking anything up you may be fine.
What probably happened is you were redirected to a malicious trojan webpage that informed you that your computer had a virus (even though it didn't) in order to get you to click things (like a proposed Anti virus). Because you clicked on the webpage it would have redirected to a funded adult site or something.
Point is unless you downloaded something or you're experiencing symptoms outside of your web browser (or your web-browsers default webpage has changed or something) you should be fine, the virus scare was just the attackers trying to trick you.