FlyerTalk Forums - View Single Post - FALSE Virus alert [there is NO malware on your computer]
Old Jul 31, 2012 | 3:41 pm
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SkeptiCallie
 
Join Date: May 2005
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Originally Posted by IBobi
Anyone who is seeing this alert, could you please post your browser type and version, and post the steps you take to get to the site and the source code if possible (you can get this by right-clicking and selecting "view source").

Thank you!

Paul
I am using Chrome these days but switch to IE to see if the problem is still there. I tested it a few minutes ago and it happened again. This time it happened when I just typed in www.flyertalk.com. I had just clicked on Forums as well, and almost instantly there was the virus-alert screen. This time, however, there was one change to the virus-alert screen. Instead of the FT background, in which we can see the rest of the FT screen, this time the entire screen, except for the alert, was blank. I did a snip-and-save, if you want it, though I don't know how to send a jpg file via PM or to post it online. Unfortunately, the snip didn't save the http: portion of the screen. However, visible on the bottom toolbar are the words, "Viruses were found" in one box and in the next, "Flyertalk Forums."

I tried to right-click on "view source," per your post above, but couldn't. Right-clicking, any clicking, nothing, worked. One more thing changed, however, in addition to the all-white screen background. I was able to shut the screen down with Ctrl Alt Del and in the past even that procedure has not worked.

I think that the posters who say that this screen hits once a day are onto something. I think it usually--but not always--has appeared once/day. Not a hundred percent, however.

There was what might be another possible oddity following my turning the laptop off and turning it back on. After I turned it back on, this time, and opened IE and FT again, FT went blank for a split second, then came back on. So I am wondering if the appearance of the "false virus" screen does do something to the browser or computer, at least for the day?
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