Starting a few hours ago, I began to receive a popup notifying me of a threat. I ran a smart scan and used Malwarebytes, but neither found anything. It’s still popping up once in a while, and seems to only popup when I’m actually using Firefox (hard to say for sure, as the popups are infrequent). I’m currently doing a full scan with Avast, but it’s going to take a long time. I attached an image of the popup; not sure if you need anything else.
Is this a false positive, or should I be worried?
Thanks.
-Gabriel
EDIT:
I should clarify that I noticed it a few hours ago, as that’s when I started using the computer. I have no idea how long it’s actually been going on for.
Thank you for your response!
Unfortunately I’m really clueless when it comes to these sort of things, but I guess that means it’s some sort of virus or malware, right?
It hasn’t popped up in a few hours now, but I’ve tried scanning it again anyway and it still says that everything’s fine.
If the popup is gone and it says my system is clean, am I good to go?
you may have some crap in your browser that try to connect to that URL
Try clear all browsers with this >> https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/
if still a problem, post back and we will get a malware expert to check some logs from your computer
I think it’s better, thank you! I used CCleaner and I think that helped, but just in case I ran SUPERAntiSpyware and cleaned out the tracking cookies. I haven’t had anything since, so I think the problem was solved.