Thread: Does this come up on Your Screen.

Hi All,
I have just been reading a thread by Olas, & there were 2 words Underlined. When you put the Arrow on the Words, Up comes this Add wanting me to have a go at Winning an " iPhone 4s ", & it is not just that 1, even on " Robbo's New Registraion."
There was another 1 Promoting " Open University ".
Is it Possible to get rid of this.

Another 1 was when I replied to a Thread, a Box would appear, telling me I had been there, but it has gone now, & I have to remember which ones I replied too.
Can I get this back ?.

Hi,
This is a problem with some spyware you seem to have picked up. Have you just downloaded a new program? I got it when i downloaded a torrent program, and it replaced my google toolbar with a Babylon toolbar. I cant actually remember how i fixed it but i think i just looked under add-ons in firefox and deleted babylon.

Where is the thread I want to try it

Hi Arry,
You will see on quite a few different threads, a word here or a word there, & you only have to pass you Cursor over any Underlined word & there it is.
On mine anyway ?.

can you show me one specifically

Lewis, the problem stems from malware, spyware or a toolbar add-on on your computer, it has nothing to do with the forum.

As Ewan said have you done an upgrade or added some new toolbar or software recently?

Hi DJ,
I take your point, but I have done nothing that I am aware of.
Not sure what Malware is.
I had a few problems, & took the whole PC to get it Fixed, so it may have happened there, so is it fixable by Me.
Need PC English, as I am no whiz.

Arry, it doesn't appear that you have the Problem.

Malware is shorthand for MALicious softWARE.
Like a virus, but it doesn't damage anything other than your sanity and tries it's damnest to fool you into emptying your bank account.....
To get rid of it, you need to install an "Anti Malware" program which also protects you form getting more of it; just like an "Anti Virus" program protects you from getting a virus.
The one I recommend is called "Malware Bytes" from Malwarebytes Anti-Malware - CNET Download.com. Before or after clicking on "Download" in the green button, don't click on any of the ads on the page - they are for other unrelated things and me bring more malware into your computer

It's free.

There is something else you may want to know about: it's called "Scareware". It is some sort of screen or message that scares you into doing something that harms your computer or your bank balance YOURSELF. A smartass early one was an urgent e-mail telling you to check that your computer didn't contain a file with a weird name (like most Windows files) and the icon was a teddybear (one of Bill Gates' team's strange choices). It urged you to quickly remove that file and restart your computer because it would otherwise do something really nasty. Of course that file was a critical system file that was meant to be be there. When you deleted it and restarted, your computer would no longer work.... but you had done that yourself. Nobody had to write any complex virus codes at all - just scare you into buggering your computer up yourself.

One of the most recent ones comes up when you start the computer and shows you an ordinary window that shows you a scan of your system files. It finds 14 serious errors and has an innocuous button that says "Fix errors". When you click on it, it tells you "sorry, but only the registered version has the automatic repair function - click here to purchase it". Smell a rat yet? Anyway, the "system file scan" is a little movie - everybody gets the same errors and nothing gets scanned.... just your fear factor.

The lesson: whenever you find anything 'odd' happening with your computer with unexpected messages, write them down - whether you understand them or not - and google the entire message. Chances are someone else has seen the same message and has had someone explain what it meant or if it was a problem or a hoax or whatever. You will learn something new and avoid being tricked - at least some of the time.

Cheers,
Joe

Hi Joe,
I will have a look at that.
Lewis.

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