Beginning yesterday, my laptop seems to have been infected with some sort of Adware that causes pop-ups that try to redirect me to some unrelated page I care nothing about.
I downloaded, installed, and ran "Malwarebytes" (free version), which identified about 30 problems, which I removed. That seemed to fix the problem for a while, but the next time I returned to the CAG forum, I saw the same behavior. But interestingly, I reran the Malwarebytes scan again, and it failed to identify any problems that time.
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed any similar behavior when using the Forum.
I hope not -- I THINK that the problem is still isolated on my own laptop, and tomorrow I will try some other remedies. But these past 2 or 3 days I've visited the Forum quite a bit, so I thought I'd ask, "just in case".
I know that some of these problems (bugs, viruses, trojans, etc.) often get planted on "innocent" websites (I recently read a report that said there is a higher probability of your computer being infected by malware from a church website than from a porn site --- because the latter typically runs better and more efficient (and more costly) security than most church websites).
The reason I'm asking is because -- after I ran the initial cleanup -- everything seemed OK until I went back to the CAG website. That proves nothing, of course, but it's "possible" that someone has hacked us and left behind something that's spreading adware -- or it's even possible that I picked it up somewhere else, and -- depending on our security -- I might have spread it to our site.
If I do find the culprit (and if I can determine that it's local -- just on my laptop) I'll let you know so you won't have to worry.
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Beginning yesterday, my laptop seems to have been infected with some sort of Adware that causes pop-ups that try to redirect me to some unrelated page I care nothing about.
I downloaded, installed, and ran "Malwarebytes" (free version), which identified about 30 problems, which I removed. That seemed to fix the problem for a while, but the next time I returned to the CAG forum, I saw the same behavior. But interestingly, I reran the Malwarebytes scan again, and it failed to identify any problems that time.
Just wondering if anyone else has noticed any similar behavior when using the Forum.
I hope not -- I THINK that the problem is still isolated on my own laptop, and tomorrow I will try some other remedies. But these past 2 or 3 days I've visited the Forum quite a bit, so I thought I'd ask, "just in case".
I know that some of these problems (bugs, viruses, trojans, etc.) often get planted on "innocent" websites (I recently read a report that said there is a higher probability of your computer being infected by malware from a church website than from a porn site --- because the latter typically runs better and more efficient (and more costly) security than most church websites).
The reason I'm asking is because -- after I ran the initial cleanup -- everything seemed OK until I went back to the CAG website. That proves nothing, of course, but it's "possible" that someone has hacked us and left behind something that's spreading adware -- or it's even possible that I picked it up somewhere else, and -- depending on our security -- I might have spread it to our site.
If I do find the culprit (and if I can determine that it's local -- just on my laptop) I'll let you know so you won't have to worry.
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