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Guest
XPPro SP3 all up to date. Avast free all up to date.
Whilst browsing innocent looking kitchen furnishing sites, my browser
suddenly came up with a window that looked like Windows Security Centre,
with an inset window looking like my AV. This inset window showed a list of
supposed trojans and other malware, and was accompanied by a popup insisting
that my system was desperately vulnerable and I should click a link to scan
it now.
I, instead, opted for pulling the plug and running ccleaner, clearing
history and running spybot and malware bytes. No malware found yet.
The hijack went to http://x05y08.3utilities.com (Sorry: I can't see how to
write this so it doesn't make a hyperlink: perhaps someone can tell me how
to do that too.) The '0's may be 'o's or a combination.
Searches on this link and its various '0' combinations came up with no other
mentions of this hijack. The 3utilities domain does get a few unreliable
notes.
Anyone know any more about this? Were WSC and Avast actually responding to
this site as they should, or was the site imitating them to fool me into
believing the popup and clicking their 'scan your pc now' button?
Cheers,
S
Whilst browsing innocent looking kitchen furnishing sites, my browser
suddenly came up with a window that looked like Windows Security Centre,
with an inset window looking like my AV. This inset window showed a list of
supposed trojans and other malware, and was accompanied by a popup insisting
that my system was desperately vulnerable and I should click a link to scan
it now.
I, instead, opted for pulling the plug and running ccleaner, clearing
history and running spybot and malware bytes. No malware found yet.
The hijack went to http://x05y08.3utilities.com (Sorry: I can't see how to
write this so it doesn't make a hyperlink: perhaps someone can tell me how
to do that too.) The '0's may be 'o's or a combination.
Searches on this link and its various '0' combinations came up with no other
mentions of this hijack. The 3utilities domain does get a few unreliable
notes.
Anyone know any more about this? Were WSC and Avast actually responding to
this site as they should, or was the site imitating them to fool me into
believing the popup and clicking their 'scan your pc now' button?
Cheers,
S