This has happened twice in the last two months. I'll be surfing the web on a legit site, getting the page to load, when it decides to change the page to something like "My Online Computer Scan" and a pop-up window stating
"Your machine could have spyware installed on it? Would you like us to scan? Y/N"
will show up. Both times I have never clicked on this window; rather, I'd go to Task Manager and end the program that way. I then promptly scanned for anything with Spybot and Symantec. I found nothing, and my computer behaved fine. No files missing, no random ads popping up, nothing of that sort.
It just happened again for the second time about an hour ago. I've scanned with Spybot and I'm currently scanning with Symantec, neither seems to be finding anything (as was the case the first time). The first time I also scanned in Safe Mode just to be sure, still found nothing.
I've installed NoScript and Flashblock in Firefox (my primary browser), and updated that to it's newest version as well. I'm not seeing anything buggy or out of the ordinary yet, and as far as I know of this was the worm/virus I was thinking of, I wouldn't have been able to open my antispyware stuff in the first place.
I'm running WinXPPro, with SP3 installed right now. Is there anything else I should do, or any fixes I should use? I'm not afraid of having to wipe n star over; this was just backed up a few days ago on my external.
"Your machine could have spyware installed on it? Would you like us to scan? Y/N"
will show up. Both times I have never clicked on this window; rather, I'd go to Task Manager and end the program that way. I then promptly scanned for anything with Spybot and Symantec. I found nothing, and my computer behaved fine. No files missing, no random ads popping up, nothing of that sort.
It just happened again for the second time about an hour ago. I've scanned with Spybot and I'm currently scanning with Symantec, neither seems to be finding anything (as was the case the first time). The first time I also scanned in Safe Mode just to be sure, still found nothing.
I've installed NoScript and Flashblock in Firefox (my primary browser), and updated that to it's newest version as well. I'm not seeing anything buggy or out of the ordinary yet, and as far as I know of this was the worm/virus I was thinking of, I wouldn't have been able to open my antispyware stuff in the first place.
I'm running WinXPPro, with SP3 installed right now. Is there anything else I should do, or any fixes I should use? I'm not afraid of having to wipe n star over; this was just backed up a few days ago on my external.
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