Windows Users: BEWARE!
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2016 2:49 pm
Recently while surfing the web, I came across such popup:
DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER
This popup spammed a message which was impossible to close (luckily Chrome has the option to block such things). It also went fullscreen as soon as I clicked in the page anywhere. It would not let yuo go out of fullscreen, and even displayed bogus window title bars at the top. I needed to force Google Chrome to close from taskmgr.
So big deal right?
Well, no.
I inspected my system, and found that 3 registry entries were changed, and malicious files were dropped to hidden locations on my System.
If you have ever seen such a popup, I recommend scanning with:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou/ (MALWAREBYTES)
https://toolslib.net/downloads/finish/1/ (ADWCLEANER)
Please be very very careful on the internet!
Josh
DO NOT CALL THIS NUMBER
This popup spammed a message which was impossible to close (luckily Chrome has the option to block such things). It also went fullscreen as soon as I clicked in the page anywhere. It would not let yuo go out of fullscreen, and even displayed bogus window title bars at the top. I needed to force Google Chrome to close from taskmgr.
So big deal right?
Well, no.
I inspected my system, and found that 3 registry entries were changed, and malicious files were dropped to hidden locations on my System.
If you have ever seen such a popup, I recommend scanning with:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/mwb-download/thankyou/ (MALWAREBYTES)
https://toolslib.net/downloads/finish/1/ (ADWCLEANER)
Please be very very careful on the internet!
Josh