This thing has hit me twice-Kaspersky blocks it (thanks to God).
Is this a new form of malware? Is there some way to find out who is send this?
I’ve contacted Microsoft-haven’t got an answer yet.
Anybody had this happen?
How has it hit you? An email? A pop-up? A system message? A hand-carved stone tablet?
Hard to tell without more information!
IAACG (I am a computer guy) I am not aware of any part of any version of windows that gives that message. Without seeing the message I would assume malware of some kind.
It’s a simple pop-up from what you describe. Everybody wants to sell something. They want so sell needless updates and PC cleaning. You can easily block pop-ups. They are not malware in and of themselves as a rule. Kasperski didn’t really save you from anything that my regular pop-up blocker doesn’t save me from every ten minutes. No, it’s not new. It’s been going on from the beginning.
Most obvious question is whether it popped up while you were browsing the web…
for what driver/program did it want to update?
Just found this thread because the same thing came to me. Wish I had taken a screenshot.
It opens a new tab and pops up a dialog box. I’ve seen pop-up ads, but never a New Tab ad, and the only time I’ve seen dialog boxes are when there is malware involved. Using Firefox, Windows 7.
The only reason this is a problem is because you’ve been conditioned to expect random people to clean up your Windows PC better than Microsoft could, as if that is ever physically possible… :smack:
The only reason I ask is to determine whether a heavy, and time-consuming, anti-virus and malware scan is called for, and some viruses need more than just that. Surely even the most dickish want some information before proceeding on a potentially very time-consuming clean-up job.
It came twice-filled the screen. As I say, Kaspersky blocked it.
I haven’t seen it since.
Having been infected once, I have no desire to ever download anything sent to me. I don’t open any emails that I don’t know the source of.
Sounds like it is a web popup formatted to look like something official - I had one of these this week from a link in an email (the sender appeared to be someone I know, the body text was plausibly something they might have said) - it opened up a popup window that looked exactly like it was something Microsoft might have made, but it was obviously fake (I wasn’t even using Windows at the time).
If you have downloaded Driver Genius or something similar for updating your drivers, and if you have scheduled when updating of drivers should take place, you will get that message.
I just got this 10 minutes ago. If you get this, close the tab-do not hit the “x” in the upper left corner of the popup, because that will start the download.
I had it hit the other day, I had just opened a new tab and it popped on. It would NOT allow me to close the tab. I ran my AVG right after and it detected nothing. Ugh. I hate those fuckers.
- Is your AVG updated?
- Did you run it in “SAFE” mode?
Yes, AVG is fully updated and I have no idea what you mean by safe mode. My AVG updates on its own, plus I do a manual update every couple days.