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For some reason, my anti-virus is blocking what appears to be a number of different virus hacking attempts when on this site. Two different blocks this morning. Good reason to keep my anti-virus protection updated.....

Anyone else experiencing this?

I am not getting any notices with my anti-virus. If that matters. If you are getting them - then it has raise the level of anxiety - especially in today's world.

russians did it

That's most likely the way things are being portrayed.

It seems "flash player", or a variant of, wants to download only from this site. Then there's another that I don't remember. Yup, anxiety ;)

What antivirus do you have BA?
I've used them-all over the years - free ones too! My surfing here is done via Dell desktop computer.

Just recently decided to try the new Windows 10 (default) Windows Defender. In the background, I keep two free programs and run scans with them bi-weekly. They SuperAntiSpyware and Malwarebytes..... usually always catching 10 or-more unwanted, stored adwares.... no big deal.

Been about a month now and these-3 in working combination will probably serve me-well, since I only visit safe, average-Joe news/sports websites and messageboards that feature discussions on guns, major league baseball and my favorite..... bobtheilguy.

I update Adobe Flashplayer manually. I never keep it's Automatic Updates feature activated. I do the same with Mozilla Firefox updates - checking both every two weeks ..... never longer. I use a solid-gold email provider in GMail and never open unknown attachments or spam/junk emails.

Life is good on the interweb these days.

I've always used Norton which has served me very well over the years. I have auto updates working in Norton, but also manually update daily. Delete all internet files daily. I use a laptop and keep it CLEAN. Its just sometimes the viruses attach themselves to any web site or page, but I'm glad Norton points them out and deletes or prevents them.

Norton's end user products are junk...Sorry but working in the IT field for over 25years ive seen more infected PCs using Norton than anything else. Its one of the worst for actually deleting the threats even if it finds them.

Their corporate products are much better. Its called Endpoint and sold under the Symantec name instead. https://www.symantec.com/products/endpoint-protection

Get a free version of Malwarebytes and/or SuperAntiSpyware. Install them in freeware mode. NOT THE FREE TRIAL. Run one of them and see what they find. The freeware versions are just a scanner/remover. It wont run all the time. You might be surprised.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/

http://www.superantispyware.com/download.html

Ive had very good results with Emsisoft's Emergency Kit also. This one can even be used from a thumbdrive. You extract it into a folder and run it from there. It installs nothing into Windows but updates are slow.
https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/eek/
https://www.emsisoft.com/en/software/eek/download/

Downloaded Malwarebytes and ran it. Zero "0" issues detected.

Well I see the blackberrygirls made it, along with someone from Japan.

Someone needs to get rid of them..........

Avast does a good job at my end.

My last post was to point out the two hackers on the site. One making the last post in Lehigh and the other a Japan tourism post.

One was taken care if. The other is something HNI allowed and.

Surprise to me too!

JW

I been using AVG Free for several years and getting along real good. Knock Knock ! I did put on a new ad blocker a while back and right now it has a count of 20 off this site alone. Have found several forums that have a bunch of ad crap on them. Some ant virus software will look at ad's as viruses.

That is because some ads ARE malware/adware. Quite a bit more than you would imagine also. Many of them pretend to be a malware warning popup. Then offer a utility to clean it.

NEVER click on that stuff. Aside from an ad blocker you can also turn off Flash by website. Both FireFox and Chrome offer this option. Flash will still run on websites you allow.