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SplendidSnail
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15 Mar 2018, 7:34 pm

When I click "Logon" on WrongPlanet (no other website), it opens a window with annoying voices and this message:

Windows Defender Alert : Zeus Virus Detected In Your Computer ! !

Obviously, this isn't real since it's happening in my browser - it's a scam. But it does worry me that WrongPlanet might have some kind of malware since it's presenting this to me.

Anyone else get this?


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15 Mar 2018, 7:44 pm

I've been having some sort of Youtube video that doesn't load open in another tab every time I click the log in thing - I suspect it's the same thing.


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15 Mar 2018, 9:04 pm

Woops, sorry, didn't realise that this is a dupe of this post:
viewtopic.php?t=361438

I initially posted to the "Computers, Math, Science, and Technology" group, and a mod correctly moved it to the "WrongPlanet.net" discussion, where it turned out there was already a thread for the same thing.

If a mod wants to delete this thread since it's already covered in a different thread, it's fine with me.
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16 Mar 2018, 1:31 am

I get the Youtube message on Chrome and the your computer is in infected message on Firefox. The firefox ransomware does not let me do anything, I have to quit the browser.


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