 |
|
| Members Helping Members help Buying a non Pontiac item, transportation help, Handy-man advice, directions, vacation ideas, places to dine, ebay and generally anything you think might help other members. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
|
#1
09-21-2009, 05:02 PM
|
|||
|
|||
Yet another computer highjack attempt.
My wife summoned me upstairs to the Computer Room and showed me a problem she was having with Internet Explorer. There was a message saying that the scan results showed we had a bunch of malicious worms and spyware and needed to run a protection program. She hadn't done anything other than do a search for how to build a rabbit hutch and click on one of the sites that came up.
She had enough sense to not do anything without getting me (this time!), and hadn't clicked anything after the message come up. I tried 3-times to exit the message and it kept coming back up. Tried to exit IE and couldn't do it. Went into Task Manager and found IE and killed it. Brought IE back up, it went to the same search site my wife had been in and got the same message when it did. Had to go back into Task Manager and kill it, again. I looked and there were 2-more IE's running, so I killed them as well. After that, when I opened IE, everything was fine. I don't know how those other 2 IE's got started, or why they weren't on the Taskbar. It's easy to see how someone could be fooled into believing they really had a problem if they weren't alert.
__________________
Rich The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. Henry Ward Beecher "The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher |
|
|
The PY Online Forums is the largest online gathering of Pontiac enthusiasts anywhere in the world. Founded in 1991, it was also the first online forum for people to gather and talk about their Pontiacs. Since then, it has become the mecca of Pontiac technical data and knowledge that no other place can surpass.
Threaded Mode