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03-16-2018, 03:38 AM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Near a lake with no fish
Posts: 1,077
OT............
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?
Anyone else experiencing this?
03-16-2018, 07:40 AM
#2
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Idaho
Posts: 11,703
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.
03-16-2018, 08:42 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Near a lake with no fish
Posts: 1,077
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 
03-18-2018, 05:03 AM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Southeast Michigan
Posts: 195
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 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.
Last edited by GoexBlackhorn; 03-18-2018 at 05:34 AM.
03-18-2018, 05:41 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Near a lake with no fish
Posts: 1,077
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 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.
03-18-2018, 07:18 AM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 5,605
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/
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/
Last edited by Gm54-120; 03-18-2018 at 07:50 AM.