Posted on 07/08/2009 5:17:40 PM PDT by TaraP
I continue to receive this Ad Pop-Up interruption everytime I click on a link.....
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Continue to this website unprotected (not recommended).
Any way to remove it? Thank you in advance for your help!
Sure does. My wife clicked it because she thought it was legitimate Windows software as it is so cleverly disguised to be. Infected her hard drive, made web-browsing next-to-impossible because it popped up all the time, eventually ate up her boot sector and caused me to buy a new hard drive for her machine.
Go to Kim Komando (komando.com) free downloads. Spybot Search and Destroy and Adaware are very effective. AVG is also a must. ZoneAlarm is also a great addition. I’ve used all of these for several years. Run Spybot and Adaware often.
“My suggestion is to get a new computer,change all of the wiring in your house and start drinking heavily.”
Great suggestion!
I’m starting on the latter part right now.
Who knew that a bottle of wine would cure a computer problem?
Thanks.
Hope this helps.
Drink heavy, drink often and don’t worry about the wiring or the Internet because in a month or two the power and IPS will have been shut off for non payment. You’ll have two crack heads you let crash in the garage in return for booze runs, and just the illuminated floating dust motes in the light beams from the rips in your window’s stapled blankets will be entertaining enough.
Oh, and ditto the stuff about drinking too. ;-)
Ditto. Norton is worse than useless.
Hire a pro to disinfect and then buy Kasperski IS.
Okay, how do you fix this:
There is a problem with this website’s security certificate.
It is not the site, I get no such message on my laptop.
are you logged on?
Technically, you're right... getting a Mac wouldn't fix any of the numerous Windows vulnerabilities, including the one this Freeper has suffered. Getting a Mac would have prevented it in the first place, however, since they're essentially immune from all types of malware, including viruses.
What 40 year old OS are you referring to? Windows XP? I knew it was old and becoming obsolete; I didn't think it was 40 years old, however.
“Getting a Mac would have prevented it in the first place, however, since they’re essentially immune from all types of malware, including viruses.”
Not really
“What 40 year old OS are you referring to?”
The Mac OS.
Just guessing, but it sounds as if you have IE 7 or 8 on one system and IE 6 or 7 on the other.
Many legitimate websites let their security certificates expire due to cost.
There is a way to inspect the certificate and then accept it and install it as a trusted certificate. Let your browser guide you through the process.
While there are about 14 Trojans in the wild for Mac OS X, there are no known viable viruses in the wild. There are several "proof-of-concept" viruses... all of which did not work as intended. There are no known cases of a self-replicating, self-installing, self-transmitting virus of any kind for Mac OS X.
Recently, two Symantec employees, writing on a $125 per year subscription blog claimed—just before the opening of Apple's World Wide Developers' Conference—that they had found the first Mac OS X spam-bot involving 20,000 Macs... but no one else has FOUND any of those infected Macs, nor has anyone duplicated their claimed findings. In other words the entire report was false FUD. Their own company, Symantec, still reports the trojan, the claimed method of infection, infected from 0 to 50 machines. That is true. The trojan was attached to downloads of a free iWork'09 Demo on a couple of BitTorrent sites. Those sites reported the download of the infected file was "in the dozens." The demo itself was available for easier and for free from Apple's own download servers.
“What 40 year old OS are you referring to?” . . . The Mac OS.
Driftdiver is somewhat right... because OS X is a fully POSIX™ compliant, certified UNIX™ which has its roots in the UNIX development that started in the late 1960s at Bell Labs. It was designed from the ground up as a multi-user, multi-tasking OS, with security as a primary focus. However, because of those 40 year old roots, which have undergone decades of trial by fire, OS X's underlying OS is industrial strength secure. On top of that core UNIX, Apple has put one of the most modern and intuitive user interfaces ever designed—one that Microsoft has been ripping off for a couple of decades—and has added some very sophisticated add-ons to handle graphics, sound, etc.
A. Buy a Mac.
OUCH!
free malwarebytes took it all out for me
People on this thread will recommend all kinds of fixes for a fundatmental problem: Windows. Spybot Search and Destroy, Adaware, AVG, Kaspersky, ZoneAlarm, etc, etc, ad nauseum. Life is too short to struggle with all of that nonsense. I use Linux for Internet access and don’t go online with Windows.
“There are no known cases of a self-replicating, self-installing, self-transmitting virus of any kind for Mac OS X.”
A tired old mantra that really doesn’t matter anymore. The main goal today is theft of valuable information or remote control of your PC. It is not destruction of your machine.
Those goals are easily achievable with an unsophisticated user base.
The MAC OS does reach back 40+ years although it has been updated. The Windows OS reaches back nearly as far. While MAC has a very trendy following now they have been incompetent through most of their history. Their user base has been small and made up of mostly literate users.
Microsoft won the marketing war early and nearly put MAC out of business. While Microsoft has its problems it has become the core of desktop computing. It has been tested by thousand of hackers for years and years. Yet it still remains the dominate OS for the desktop.
Developing any product to be used by 1,000,000,0000 users is far different than a product for 1,000,000 users. The complexity of the development and maintenance is unbelievably more complex.
So as much fun as is had knocking Microsoft they have done a lot of things very very very well.
And back to your worm/virus argument. As long as you can get a user to click “ok” you can do anything you want. As more unsophisticated users buy MACs you will have more machines compromised. As more machines are compromised the threat will increase.
A MAC is a media access controller, the unique hardware identifier in networking equipment.
A Mac is a computer made by Apple.
gee what an intelligent and thoughtful response
Apple introduced the Macintosh (Mac) in 1984. That was 25 years ago. OsX has been around for fewer than 10. There were more than 20 million Macs by 1997, and today they are the fastest growing Computer Company. How many computers is Bill Gates and crew making these days?
I gotta go get into my black turtleneck now, so have a PC night! Be sure and use protection...
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