HELP!!!!!

[catjac1975]

I belong to a daylily forum called Mydaylily. I tried to post a blossom and got a malicious hacker warning. and I seem to now be blocked from the whole website. I can barely run a computer for simple mundane tasks much less hack anything. What to do?????

 

[seedcorn]

Are you windows based? If so, do you have virus protection?

 

[digitS']

What internet browser do you use:

- internet explorer
- firefox
- chrome
. . ?

Do you have more than one browser installed on your computer?

Steve

 

[catjac1975]

I use a MAC which is less than a year old , Safari, and virus protection. Mac's don't usually get viruses. I only use Safari. Never had this problem before.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

Mac's can still get them. it is just rare for it to happen. can you run a virus checker? do you have any kind of ad aware to check for potential malware that could have been attached to a webpage?

 

[catjac1975]

I'll tell the husband -it's his realm.

 

[897tgigvib]

Cat, that sounds similar to what happened to me last month, except I didn't get any kind of warning like that. My laptops are not Mac based though.

I do have a couple questions to see if your problem really is similar to the one I had.

1) did you purposely or accidentally, either, click an ad that then asked you to do a download?
a) if you did, did you do the download?
b) was the download trying to put a toolbar onto your browser, and a real dumb one that made silly things be homepages, and generally slowed things down?
c) did you then uninstall it?

Ya see, turns out there is a new "we'll get back at you for not keeping our download" virus out there. Now, that is my best guess what happened to me. I have a second guess though.

2) Do you have a Twitter account? I stopped going to twitter entirely. Turns out twitter is a veritable playground for hackers. Click one of their so called youtube videos and boom, it's y.outube or youtu.be or some such thing that is a virus loader in disguise. And, these days they are a step ahead of your computer's protection because it disguises the code even from the daily or hourly protection definition protector things.

Cat, I had to purchase a new laptop. 220 bucks counting tax. To get it out takes about that much to pay an expert who would probably have to reinstall a new windows or what you call it with mac, os something.

What you might want to try is what I did that last week before I bought the new inexpensive but good chromebook:

Google up proxy servers. Proxy servers are special webpages, mostly designed for kids on school libraries or folks at work who want to get onto facebook or game pages or what not that the computer is locked out from getting to.

Locking you out of your favorite page is what this new virus does. But when you are on the proxy server page, it has a window in it to type in your locked out page. The proxy server then goes to your locked out page, and brings it to you inside it's own framework.

Proxy servers. some are good, and some are tricky. Do not click any ads in them. In fact, if it is this virus, you'll be seeing ads overlayed on top of regular ads. some spill over your scroll bar. Make it a habit never to click any ads ever again, even accidentally. If accidentally, immediately x the page out!

I actually hope you get it figured out better than I did. Someone needs to get to the bottom of this. Oh, and if t...deleted my attitude about what should happen to hackers. suffice it to say, it needed to be deleted.

 

[seedcorn]

I'll tell the husband -it's his realm.

This sounds soooooo familiar.

 

[897tgigvib]

did it happen to you too seed?

 

[seedcorn]

I've gotten viruses before. The sound familiar is my wife will get the computer all messed up, then expects me to fix it. All the time claiming, I never clicked anything....... Usually after going on rampage how computers are ruining world, families, etc.....from Dr. Oz or Oprah or some other TV }%^{]~. But she wants her computer. Sad part is I paid for her masters degree in, you guessed it, computer programming. Which she never used and is now untrained in current computer training. Sorry for rambling, for me, too funny!

I love Microsofts free protection as they are sensitive to hackers going after them.