jpbls

Every other time I come on this site,my anti virus picks up something.Same when I access this site from my phone.Annoying

Higgs Boson

turn off your antivirus. no more annoying.

phantasms

Apple.com

Joy c7

No problem here.

BMadden

My anti-virus has popped up with warnings a couple times when coming to this site as well. Not sure what the hell is going on. It's weird when I'm getting virus alerts from Corvette Forum and not **** sites.

Chuck A

every time i get on this , it asks me if i have a question to ask
very not knowing indeed

ajrothm

I have also been getting the pop up/down load requests on this forum, however, ironcally its only on my work computer which is on a huge global network/firewall etc..

My trusty iphone doesnt get anything, but the work network does..LOL

I was thinking it was just some glitch with our system, but apparently if you guys are getting it as well, its a real deal.

funz06

My IT security expert daughter did something to my computer that greatly improved things. I will try to find out today just what she did and post again.

We narrowed my persistent virus problems to the Forum as well. I had trouble for some 2+ years.

Greg00Coupe

15 years on here....... a variety of computers, work, we got big time firewalls at work, home and the like......never a problem. Now I've gone and jinxed myself.

funz06

PS.............my virus problem was really twofold; the Forum, and a friend of mine in RI. I had to stop opening anything he sent me, no matter the source or how innocent it appeared. For years he would mock me when my daughter threatened to not fix my computer again if I continued to open his enclosures (jokes, stories, etc.). Well...............turns out his computer was so infected with viruses it was beyond repair...............he was forced to buy a new computer and his computer friends told him not to download anything from his old computer.

So, between this guy cleaning up his act, and me never opening any enclosures he, or anyone else, sends, and my daughter adjusting my computer for the Forum (details to follow in another post), my computer is 99% better. I was getting viruses at least weekly.

b4i4getit

Posts like this make me laugh and do nothing but make the computer makers and resellers more money. Nobody ever has to buy a new computer if it is loaded with viruses. If you don't want to take the time to clean it up simply reinstall your operating system. Even if malware was to take over your boot sector there are free programs to clean every single bit on your hard drive so you can start over again.

Higgs Boson

bro, he was from Rhode Island though. he made that clear....

b4i4getit

Who cares where his friend was from ? I did not but you apparently did. That was not the purpose of my comment. I was just making a public service announcement to anybody that could be convinced to buy a new computer because of virus infestation. Plain and simple.

BOBSZ06

Norton

funz06

I am sure the extent of the viruses was the last straw---his computer was fairly old as well.

Fixing computers may be easy for you, but that does not mean the same holds true for everyone. In my own personal experience, to help save my daughter time, I had the computer keeks (or whatever they are called) come out and 'attempt' to fix things. They failed miserably. They readily admitted they couldn't do it-----they were stumped. They also acknowledged that they had never even heard of most of the things my daughter had already done and was planning to do.

Oh yea, she and her husband work at a firm that does extensive IT security work for the FBI, Federal Reserve banks,etc., and co-workers are heavily involved with the Chinese government hacking, etc. They live and breath viruses.

Simply reinstalling my operating system is not something I would attempt myself---if it easy for you---good for you.

However, evaluating and really understanding the most complex financial statements in the world, including those involving hundreds and thousands of pages of interim and FYE statements and other SEC required filings, especially the reams of data related to the largest bankruptcies, acquisitions and mergers in the world, is a breeze to me. We each have our own strengths and weaknesses.

azcanuk

us the pop up settings in your anti virus software. Block all pop ups and adds but let me warn you.. the forum police don't like you to do so as that is how they make their $$$$... adds, adds and more adds..

So, set your private browsing and anti banner.. and you'll be surprised at how many are blocked when you enter this site.

Love the site, all the comradery and help, but..

AzDave47

Norton 360 on my main PC and free AVG on very old, slow laptop and no virus problems on the forum for many years. I also use AdBlock+ but financially support the forum for the value I get.

Speednet

IT expert here. If you use Windows 10 on your computer, my best advice is to get rid of (uninstall) ALL malware protection -- Norton, Kaspersky, McAfee, Malwarebytes, etc., etc., etc. -- and simply enable Windows Defender, which is built into Windows 10.

(You actually don't need to manually enable Defender. It will enable itself once you've gotten rid of all the crap malware software.)

I have been saying this for YEARS, but finally the tech industry is starting to call out these grubby money-makers (malware software vendors) for actually making your computer LESS SECURE.

Here is a recent technical article from Ars Technica that describes one scenario where malware software makes your web browser unsecure: https://arstechnica.com/information-...ivirus-is-bad/.

Malware software purposely labels harmless activities and functionality on your computer as "evil/bad stuff", because the more stuff it can tell you it helped you with, the greater the chance you will renew the annual subscription to their software or upgrade to the latest version. Even free software works like that, because they use their volume of free installs to convince corporate customers to pay for a "professional" version.

A great example of a harmless function that is labeled "evil/bad" is browser cookies. All malware vendors want to "make you secure" by blocking cookies and/or constantly deleting them. That is not only dumb, but again it makes your computer less secure. By deleting cookies, you are not making yourself one bit more safe, but instead you are forcing yourself to login to websites all the time (because many websites store your login token in a cookie), so you are constantly entering and re-entering your password. Unless you use a password organizer (like LastPass) then you will typically create easy passwords that you can type quickly, because you have to use them all the time. There is nothing whatsoever that is bad or evil about cookies, no matter what line of bull you've been told. All the bad stories about cookies were started years ago by the very companies that make money blocking them.

I have been using Defender since the very first free version came out in the Windows 7 days. Back then it was called Microsoft Security Essentials. I have never experienced one single bad malware event since that time, but it did catch some attempts to invade my computer when I was stupid and clicked on something I shouldn't have. (Even experts have flashes of stupidity.)

By the way, I mentioned LastPass; I strongly recommend that people use LastPass or another password manager. LastPass is my absolute favorite, and very much worth paying a little money for the complete software. But you also get an enormous amount of functionality just with the free package. It allows you to create a unique, complex password for every website, and then when you get to the Log In page of a website, it automatically logs you in. You only need to remember one password: the password to LastPass. You create a good complex password that you can remember for LastPass, and that's the only place that password is used. It works in every web browser and every smartphone platform.

So that's my 2 cents, feel free to comment or question.

Higgs Boson

lol emotions. i was making fun of the other guy for saying it but you bit too???

gee willikers!

irok

been getting the exact popup for the last 2 weeks