This morning I went to open my browser, Google Chrome, and clicked on my home page. As soon as it opened, I received a nefarious looking message in the upper right hand corner of the screen. In a pop-up box message stated that a program had installed which reads and changes passwords and views my browsing history. It gave me the option to allow or deny. Of course I denied the option.
Has anyone ran across this security message from Avast before? What should I be looking for to be sure that my system is safe? Also, since the threat was blocked while using my browser, is there a way that I can view it and possibly tell what location it was residing in?
if you have not rebooted since it happend you can right click avast tray icon and select show last popup … there is a pin in top right corner to click if you want it to stay on screen
I’m pretty sure it was an official Avast warning. It had the Avast logo, type of format and colors. Unfortunately, I have re-booted since that time. I have also ran full scans from Avast, Malwarebytes and TDS Rootkiller. Currently in the process with ESET. Nothing has been detected so far.
Yeah, maybe … but I all I did was open Chrome and go to Yahoo. Nothing was downloaded with my knowledge. If the scan’s turn up clean, should I not worry about it then?
After about 10 hours of scanning, it does appear to have been a trojan (picked up from who knows where). ESET was able to detect it, quarantine and remove. Hopefully nothing was comprised, as this pc hadn’t been in use for a few days.