avast! blocked the virus:
hxxp://urlfilter.vmn.net/vmnsbf/data/120921093944-m.zip|1209…
Virus Lab research shows that more than 80% of malware (viruses, trojans, worms, spyware) now spreads via the internet. More notably, only 1% of this number comes from suspicious or ‘dodgy’ sites – about 99% spreads via legitimate websites that have been hacked.
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The only websites I’ve been on this am. is Facebook and this forum. In fact this popped up while I was on the forum.
Please ‘modify’ your post change the URL from http to hXXp, to break the link and avoid accidental exposure to suspect sites, thanks.
The fact that you get a pop-up on a specific site doesn’t necessarily mean the malware is on that site. There is more to it than that. Depending on the browser you can have add-ons (some which might be malicious, redirecting urls in the browser).
I was on and still am using the Flock browser which is the browser I use to access this forum. As far as I know I don’t have any add on’s on this browser.
Try finding and disabling the Anti-phishing Domain Advisor and see if this is what is causing the problem.
Personally I don’t see the need for a dedicated Anti-phishing application as the avast Network Shield malicious sites list is likely to cover phishing sites as many are likely to be malicious. Depending on your browser, it may have anti-phishing built in. You can also consider using the OpenDNS.com as your DNS server it has a dashboard function with many categories you can block at DNS server level, Phishing being one and other parental control settings, http://www.opendns.com/start/ for more info.
I haven’t a clue why it would be installed on a new computer aside from not knowing what that computer was, many manufacturers load their computers with junk, looks good in a long list of free software.
They also haven’t a clue what you are going to subsequently install.
My Identity Protection is installed too. I clicked on it once and entered my name but it asked for my SS number so I didn’t go any further. Guess I had best uninstall that too.