# Anti-spyware Pop-Ups?

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-spyware-pop-ups/544001
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**Created:** [June 21, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-spyware-pop-ups/544001 "2010-06-21T16:41:16Z")
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### Author: ![In\_Winnipeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a8b319/32.png) [@In\_Winnipeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Winnipeg)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-spyware-pop-ups/544001/1 "2010-06-21T16:41:16Z")

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I don’t want to alarm anyone, but for the last day or so whenever I come on the SDMB, I click on a thread, the screen goes blank, and at the top of my screen in the blue strip, the name will change to some sort of Anti-Spyware. I then get a message that my computer is infected and this mock scan starts, at the end of which I get a dialogue box asking if I want to download some program.

Naturally, I just hit the X in anything that comes up and kill it.

This doesn’t happen to me on any other website, though, just this one. Any idea on what the problem is?

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### Author: ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2010, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-spyware-pop-ups/544001/2 "2010-06-21T18:19:17Z")

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It’s an ad. I’ve reported it.

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### Author: ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2010, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-spyware-pop-ups/544001/3 "2010-06-21T22:58:52Z")

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Please provide any info you can about what you’re seeing. It’s particularly help if you can send us a screen shot. On a PC, you can do this by pressing Atl-Print Screen, pasting the result into MS Paint with Control-V, saving the result, and e-mailing the file to edzotti at aol dot com. Thanks.

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### Author: ![Postariti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Postariti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Postariti)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2010, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-spyware-pop-ups/544001/4 "2010-06-22T17:18:40Z")

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I had something like this happen to me. It was VSCAN7, I posted the details in the other thread.