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Originally Posted by Fool Zero
Pachy, that sounds just like one of those scams where the adware announces that you have viruses on your computer and offers to fix them for you. Typically it scans (or pretends to) for free and tells you what it found, then asks you to send money to have it removed. No guarantees, either that anything besides the malware was there to begin with, or that it'll actually remove anything or even go away.
We discussed something similar to that here:
http://forums.psychcentral.com/showt...00#post1679700 |
Fool Zero is correct, it sound like you have malware on your computer.
Malware for profit: spyware, botnets, keystroke loggers, and dialers
Spyware programs are commercially produced for the purpose of gathering information about computer users, showing them
pop-up ads, or altering web-browser behavior for the financial benefit of the spyware creator. For instance, some spyware programs redirect
search engine results to paid advertisements. Others, often called "
stealware" by the media, overwrite
affiliate marketing codes so that revenue is redirected to the spyware creator rather than the intended recipient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware
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