FALSE Virus alert [there is NO malware on your computer]
Jul 22, 2012, 4:00 pm
#33
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 3,944
It has happened again, just now. This time the address was changed to (partial listing, to avoid the hyperlink), "http://" followed by the words
utilitywarderdefender.pl \
followed by numbers.
Interesting thing, however, about the numbers in the string. From "/ss/" on--i.e., "/ss/78dee9e271084" (etc.), the numbers are identical as to what they were before.
I.e., what changes now in the address bar are, first, the words, "utilitywarderdefender," and secondly, the numbers following those words, up to the "/ss/--etc," at which point the numbers are the same as in the earlier hyperlink.
utilitywarderdefender.pl \
followed by numbers.
Interesting thing, however, about the numbers in the string. From "/ss/" on--i.e., "/ss/78dee9e271084" (etc.), the numbers are identical as to what they were before.
I.e., what changes now in the address bar are, first, the words, "utilitywarderdefender," and secondly, the numbers following those words, up to the "/ss/--etc," at which point the numbers are the same as in the earlier hyperlink.
Jul 22, 2012, 4:09 pm
#35
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: May 2008
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Posts: 11,169
Twice in the last two days while using FT i have had a pop up appear. It is designed to make it look like MS security essentials notice.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Braybuddy/MS.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y193/Braybuddy/MS.jpg
Jul 22, 2012, 7:36 pm
#36
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: BWI/IAD
Programs: UA MP 1P
Posts: 120
So is flyertalk going to do something about this? I'm pretty sure its a rogue banner ad script. They need to alert whoever provides their banner ads that there is a bogus ad causing malware popups. Looks like doubleclick.net to me.
Jul 23, 2012, 12:11 am
#41
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Join Date: May 2001
Posts: 10,971
I have encountered too. It seems to me that this happens if my mouse is in the wrong place at the wrong time. It seems the mouse triggers some action which brings up the site. This always happens when the page is loading.
No log entries in Norton.
What is one supposed to do and not do when this happens? I guess clicking that OK on the dialogue box would be a bad idea, right?
Thanks.
No log entries in Norton.
What is one supposed to do and not do when this happens? I guess clicking that OK on the dialogue box would be a bad idea, right?
Thanks.
Jul 23, 2012, 12:20 am
#42
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2010
Programs: AA
Posts: 14,743
I have encountered too. It seems to me that this happens if my mouse is in the wrong place at the wrong time. It seems the mouse triggers some action which brings up the site. This always happens when the page is loading.
No log entries in Norton.
What is one supposed to do and not do when this happens? I guess clicking that OK on the dialogue box would be a bad idea, right?
Thanks.
No log entries in Norton.
What is one supposed to do and not do when this happens? I guess clicking that OK on the dialogue box would be a bad idea, right?
Thanks.
Jul 23, 2012, 11:56 am
#45
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: BWI, PHL, IAD
Programs: Marriott LT Titanium; Mileage Plus 1K, 1 MM; Global Entry
Posts: 1,516
I have encountered too. It seems to me that this happens if my mouse is in the wrong place at the wrong time. It seems the mouse triggers some action which brings up the site. This always happens when the page is loading.
No log entries in Norton.
What is one supposed to do and not do when this happens? I guess clicking that OK on the dialogue box would be a bad idea, right?
Thanks.
No log entries in Norton.
What is one supposed to do and not do when this happens? I guess clicking that OK on the dialogue box would be a bad idea, right?
Thanks.
I do get a log entry in Norton for every one of these and I get a pop-up alert saying it stopped an attack. Even posted a couple of partial log entires earlier in the thread. Every scan I have run for this problem has come back clean.