I have been in FT for about an hour this morning.

TWICE I have returned from a thread .. and at least once (I do not recall the first time) gotten a brand new page (not FT) from a company called Malware.

It ran a scan and told me my PC was infected.

It definately was the same window as my FT session had been in since FT was now gone.

Came up with errors (and wanting me to give it ActiveX authority).

The first program came back with several message boxes asking me to load their software to protect my computer. It was VERY HARD to get this thing to stop.

PLEASE PLEASE resolve this.

If the site has been hijacked by ads .. you have issues with your ad provider.

If the site has been hijacked by others .. you have a more serious problem....

I got the same this morning.

Seems these infected ads show up on the weekends.

Really Really bad form.

Same thing happened to me this morning. I

've been nailed with these Trojans twice in the last couple of years and they are a pain to clean up. ON both occasions, it took me the better part of a half day to do a Google search on the Trojan name and find a website that has removal instructions. You have to boot up in Safe Mode and run a registry cleaner that you download from the website. I'm not an IT person so I was winging it all the way.

I got the window wanting me to click on it. These types of Trojans will try to download even if you hit "cancel" or close the window with the upper right "x".

The best thing to do is to hit ctrl-alt-del to bring up Task Manager. Go to the applications tab and you'll see Flyer Talk identified as a running program. Highlight it and click "End Program". Then, shut down and do a reboot. Run your anti-spyware application (your real one!) and your anti-virus program. Then, take a deep breath and say, "WHEW!"

Please download Firefox and use it as your default browser. It's much more secure than IE. If you don't have an anti-spyware program, there are several good ones out there. Windows Defender is free from the Microsoft website and is also very good.

Today's Trojan got blocked by my Firefox because FF doesn't allow ActiveX unless you specifically allow it in.

WHEW!

So my subscription expired yesterday so I'm looking at ads. I don't mind the subscription, just hadn't gotten around to resubscribing yet.

So all the sudden a pop up dialog box pushes my browser off screen and suggests I let them run a malware scan... when I close the pop up it redirects me to their site and maximizes the browser.

Does Flyertalk condone this?

I know this can be expected at many sites, porn sites, sports sites, porn sites, etc... but Flyertalk? Really? Sad.

I just looked at my logs because this morning I kept on getting messages that IE wanted to accept a connection from the internet...

Here is the information:

The source DNS for this is listed as flyertalk.com.

I got the same ad, although it only popped up after I logged into Flyertalk. I didn't get any warning, but perhaps my software missed it. Can those types of trojans affect Macs?

FliesWay2Much, how do you do know the name of the Trojan you're searching for in this case? The supposed name of the company "Malware", brought up articles about malware.

I think the name of the Trojan was longer. I think it was something like "Malware-Scam" or "Malware-Scrub" or something like that. The Trojan I got hit with a couple of weeks ago was called "AntiVirGear" and loaded itself the same way that the FT Trojan tried to load. (I was using IE instead of Firefox because my work on-line calendar won't work on Firefox.) I did a search on the Trojan name and eventually wound up on http://www.bleeping computer.com. I wound up in the Forums section and someone had published detailed instruction about how to remove this Trojan.

I'd recommend downloading "bleeping computer" and setting up a free account. They have lots of free downloads and tutorials.

Have you tried the IE rendering engine for Firefox for your online calendar? Everything I've tried so far that doesn't work in Ff has been okay when I just open it in an IE tab in Ff.

It's the IE tab add-on/extension for Firefox.

i use firefox and i am getting the same issue. if i close and reopen then i am fine but one i get the pop up i am finished on that session.

Are they flash ads? If so I use FlashBlock extension for Firefox. If not, I don't know why I'm not seeing them at all, unless my WindowsLiveOneCare or Vista is blocking them out.

It's there, and its from flyertalk.com .

I do not know if this program will do any damage to the overall functionality of one's computer, but it is already doing damage by its deceptive and hyper-aggressive nature and the wasting one's time dealing with it (and its aborting of Flyertalk browsing sessions).

It is loaded only during Flyertalk browsing sessions.

It will minimize your Flyertalk session and force you to deal with it.

You cannot get rid of it except through Task Manager - DO NOT click on the "x" in the popup window!

You can find it and end it through Windows Task Manager:

Commonly as scanner.malware-sc***
(I don't want to give the complete url, in order to encourage you NOT to go to their website.); however, other urls may appear as well.

It is identified as a Trojan Horse by at least one of my anti-virus programs, still investigating this.

Be very careful doing a Google search for information on the program, you may get attacked again.

SHAME, SHAME on you Flyertalk!

My laptop has been infected by trojans supplied by FT.

Apparently during the last 10 days or so, when I was reading FT, various pop-ups started to show up, such as Malware-Scan and TripMania.

As the result, I was forced to shut down IE and made firefox default.

Even so, pop ups still show up from time to time with firefox when am on FT.

Everyone should know that when you visit an internet site, there is always a risk with Trojans and viruses. But I would never expect that it would happen on FT because we trust FT so much.

Now the confidence has been greatly shaken. A big to FT.

In addition, it seems that FT downloaded a program called "BestsellerAntivirus" to my laptop, and I could not get rid of it.

Even after I did "regedit" to delete it from my register key, it still shows up after the computer is restarted.

The location is

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/BestsellerAntivirus

I'm surprised no one from FT management has been along to comment about these reports.

I'm not.

Cheers.