Hi

i am trying to down load a program i go on to the site and try to start the down load and all i get is loads of internet exployer pages up to 30pages one after another and im not even in internet exployer im using chrome,firefox or safari and i can`t stop this happerning do you think this is a virus or something simular thanks for any ideas this did not happern untill i went on the programs site all i can do is shut of with the main button

regards Dave Hoskins

Dave,

We could use some more information.

1. What is the site from which you are trying to get the program?
2. What antivirus and malware programs are you using?
3. When did you last update those programs?
4. When did you last run complete scans?
5. Firefox has a pretty good popup blocker. Is it on?

Sorry I don't have an immediate answer for you, but we should be able to figure something out.

Richard

Site may not be set up for a simple leftclick to download, or perhaps it is your computer setup, but try RightClicking on it and select, "SaveTarget As" or the likes, as it sounds like it is trying to load as a website and not a download.


--Mac

More of a key here is where you are going to download, and what you are downloading. Typically download sites that offer the "hot stuff" are filled with spawning windows that want to trick you into downoading junk. I would go to malwarebytes.org, download Malwarebytes, and run it to clean any malware. A virus does damage. Spyware is just annoying doing things like hijacking browsers and such.

Main thing is to make sure you download only from reputable sites.

We had a client tell us tonight that their site is infected; please help take it off-line for us if you can ...
coincidence?
Basstirds get more evasive every day ...


I've tracked infections to ads served on yahoo etc ... they can come from anywhere. My first instinct is an infection and, like Eddie suggested, a scan with said software is a good start especially if done in safe mode with most recent definition update.
Be safe first.

Wait a minute here Mr Harvey. Do we AGREE on something??? Is that even permitted with me being in The Buckeye Nation and you being in that state up north?

And here I was all prepared to blame his spyware infection on you....

Well, I got a feeling it'll be a day or two until we hear from OP..
does that answer your question?

One of my favorite memories of high-in-the-middle-and-round-on-both-ends follows

I was cruising to Cedar Point, and I was staying in traffic with everybody else doing about 4-5 mph over. In my mirror I see the flashers .. get pulled over (apparently for being from out of state) and the officer says I either have to go pay the ticket now at the station, spend the night in jail, or supply a bond card.
I explain I'm on vacatation with the family; can't we handle it some other way?
He says "don't you have a bond card, like AAA or something?"
Well yeah! I have a AAA card. So I'm good to go.

I get in the car and the wife asks what happened in the patrol car, so I told her.
She turned red as can be and said "Honey, I cancelled AAA last month and changed insurance companies".
Of course I didn't turn around and go back to find the officer .. I just sent the money to AAA when they sent me a nastygram.
Only place I had ever had a worse experience with a cop was Niagara Falls, and that was downright extorion, but I digress.

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Only place I had ever had a worse experience with a cop was Niagara Falls, and that was downright extorion, but I digress.

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aw, come on. Digress out loud so we can hear.