Malware/Privacy Intrusion Virus in P.M.'s?!?!

Originally Posted by JColt

No that's just a spammer Deborah. Fake antivirus is coming thruogh flash and google ads for most part. The one I'm working on now the person was on espn website.

Thanks! I did wonder why they used Fauna's name, this is my first time having a spammer from FAUNA.

Be careful, It's scary out there! lol.

Hello All, I would just like to add that I also got this scam and it did come through this site as i dont visit many others except forums and classifieds. There is an easy way to get rid of it though. If it is the windows 7 one pictured on page one you can simply go into the task manager and shut down the process running the scam which will allow you to safely remove it. The process is mixed letters something like fgadefgoieu.exe, you can look at the creator of that file all the way to the right and you will see healthcare something (sorry was more then a week ago so I forgot a little) If the process is not shut down then it will block all your attempts to remove it. Also try to open as few programs as possible while fighting this scam. This scam attaches itself to the programs that you open while infected causing that program to say it is infected also. Good luck to those affected by this situation.

Ron

while browsing via work pc which has great protection, I get the 'this pop up was blocked' message and then today, I was looking at an ad, clicked 'new posts' and was taken to this page (screenshot attached; website - iegallery dot com) - so then I went 'back', tried the same action again and it worked like it should. Something strange is afoot at the circle K. I should have made note of what ad was up on the classified I was looking at but didn't think of it.

Not sure if it's related but could be...

I had this exact same thing.....took the puter to office depot and $139 later it was fixed.....and added an antivirus program for the future.

Originally Posted by magicalmorphs

I had this exact same thing.....took the puter to office depot and $139 later it was fixed.....and added an antivirus program for the future.

Chris, find a local guru! I usually charge between $25 to $45 to clean virus, update every thing, clean inside pc and add antivirus. If real bad and need to back up files and re install, update and all around $75.00 to $90.00

I too, have been getting insane amounts of popup windows, but I haven't been clicking ads. Mostly while browsing here, eBay, Amazon, etc. rather annoying, but they're not malicious as far as I can tell.

Seems that most of my popups (blocked, of course) happen when I am browsing Google doing searched. Any link to a site called "boardreader" invariably triggers a blocked popup.

I too had my work computer infested twice in a week. I havent been on fauna in a while but the first time i happened was probably the week of the 20th and then yesterday it happened again. I called the IT people we use at work both times and they remoted in and fixed it twice. This thread was brought to my attention so I wanted to put it out there. I didnt have any issues until i visited fauna (there are only 3 websites i visit daily at work) and it only happened when i visited. I didnt PM or do anything but browse the threads and look at some profiles of people I know... nothing more... hopefully my personal computer does not become infected with the issue.

If such things happen again, and it's possible to do so, please take a look around as to what is being displayed on your browser at the time you feel the problem has been initiated on your system. Make note of which ads are being displayed in both the Google ads, and the ones that are being provided from FaunaAds.com.

Since any sort of executable code has been disabled within post on this site itself, it's not likely that the problem actually stems from within the posts and threads you are reading.