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thunderfoot
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While cruizing the Interwebs early this AM, caught one of those nasty Fake Anti Virus malware apps. This one was pretty determined to hold my laptop hostage until I paid. The usual things I do, such as use System Restore from my desktop, or find and delete the offending files directly from my HDD, did not work. This one, called AntiVir 2010, just overrode anything I tried with the message, "such and such file is infected! Access denied!" Happily, Safe Mode and System Restore rode to the the rescue once more. Now I have a freeware app to prevent this. Since we cannot post links I have to tell you to Google the following: Remove Fake Anti Virus
The sad thing is this occurred on a site vetted by my AV and Windows Defender as a safe site. It is a website with some very cool pictures and videos of hot rods. Turns out there was a hidden redirect link inside one of the adverts and I was a little careless about where I was pointing and clicking. Sent an email with all the details to the webmaster in question and hopefully, it will be addressed post haste. But I'm not ever going back there again.
A suggestion, if I may. Maybe a thread pinned somewhere in this Section with problems others have experienced and their solutions. In addition, maybe a link on the home page which takes one directly to such a thread, and is one visitors and guests, as well as members, can view would be helpful. Not everyone is as computer savvy as they'd like to be all the time and if we can offer a way out of dilemmas like this and a way to prevent them from occurring to others, it would probably be bandwidth well spent, IMHO.
This is the point where someone says, "But everyone knows Safe Mode and System Restore will cure this!" Not entirely true in everyone's case. I also lost about 2.25GB of mods for A2 and MC2 because I had to go back to a Restore Point I was sure uninfected. One I specifically created about two weeks ago. Like a lot of people I do not make supplementary backups on thumb drives or such. Painful way to be reminded this is stupid as well as lazy. All I coud think about while the Restore in Progress screen was running was,
The sad thing is this occurred on a site vetted by my AV and Windows Defender as a safe site. It is a website with some very cool pictures and videos of hot rods. Turns out there was a hidden redirect link inside one of the adverts and I was a little careless about where I was pointing and clicking. Sent an email with all the details to the webmaster in question and hopefully, it will be addressed post haste. But I'm not ever going back there again.
A suggestion, if I may. Maybe a thread pinned somewhere in this Section with problems others have experienced and their solutions. In addition, maybe a link on the home page which takes one directly to such a thread, and is one visitors and guests, as well as members, can view would be helpful. Not everyone is as computer savvy as they'd like to be all the time and if we can offer a way out of dilemmas like this and a way to prevent them from occurring to others, it would probably be bandwidth well spent, IMHO.
This is the point where someone says, "But everyone knows Safe Mode and System Restore will cure this!" Not entirely true in everyone's case. I also lost about 2.25GB of mods for A2 and MC2 because I had to go back to a Restore Point I was sure uninfected. One I specifically created about two weeks ago. Like a lot of people I do not make supplementary backups on thumb drives or such. Painful way to be reminded this is stupid as well as lazy. All I coud think about while the Restore in Progress screen was running was,
"D***! All that work I did just went for nothing!"