I'm having to post this on my phone because on my Mac it won't stay on a page long enough to post. I keep getting re-directed to web pages that tell me I need to update flash or that I have viruses. Neither is the case.
"AppleCare" is the one telling me I have 3 viruses including a Trojan. I googled this and it's been a scam in the past. "Adobe" is telling me to update flash. Both sites don't look "right" and of course ask me to click on a button to repair it.
Also, yesterday there was an obnoxious ad with a older man and younger woman talking about a movie. It would come up on every page. Super annoying.
I'm on Windows and getting the same thing. It stared last night to the point that it's hard to stay on a thread for long enough to post... some how I as able to post this... ????
On my Mac I use an ad blocker with Safari and this doesn't occur, on the other hand using Google Chrome or Safari on my iPad I have a similar problem where it sometimes though not always redirects me to a page with a square black something with a spinning wheel thingy, for want of a better description since on the iPad I can't view page source and elements etc.
This has happened to me occasionally on my Chromebook and my computer at home... I installed an AdBlocker extension into Chrome, and it seems to have solved the problem. Has never happened on my PC at work.
I downloaded the free trail copy. I says that it detected 220 possible problems on my computer. I was able to open a window that listed all 220. But it did not fix anything and did not have any way to fix anything. I guess a person has to pay for it to actually get it to fix something. Most of those 220 items are probably not malware, viruses, etc.
I did look up some of the things on the list, one was definitely malware. Some of them were part of Window OS ... some files and some were items in the windows registry. I would now need to go to each of those 220 items, research each one and determine if it really is a problem. Talk about labor intensive!! And I probably do need to do this. I ran for a week or so with my virus protection software expired. I guess that's the price.
Yesterday I was getting redirected to a white page that says "nanoadexchange.com". I wasn't even clicking on any ads; very frustrating.
We'll see how it goes today.
I did not want to start a new thread for something so minor, but the past 2 weeks or so I get arbitrarily logged out of TAM. Sometimes as fast as 5 minutes, or an hour or so. Happens numerous times a day. Getting annoying.
OK, yesterday this problem got so bad on my computer that I was unable to do much on TAM because 90% of the time when I opened a window on the forums, my browser was redirected to some other site... often to some kind of ransom-ware type site.
I’m posting the following just in case it helps someone fix their adware/malware issues. Almost every time I opened a thread I'd get one of the two warnings below
About 2 weeks ago my anti-virus (AVG Anti-Virus) subscription expired and did not renew. (Stupid me!)
In the last few days, when I was on TAM, my browser was re-directed to other sites. By yesterday it got so bad that almost every time I opened a screen on TAM, the browser would go to another site telling me that I had a virus problem, etc. (Basically ransom sites).
So I tried malwarebyte, it did not fix anything.
Then I installed WebRoot (Anti-virus cyber security software). I forgot to uninstall AVG Anti-Virus. So I now had two anti-viruses running. AVG was running in so much as it kept popping up and telling me that I needed to renew it.
Then I started to get the warning screens/popups in the images below. I was getting one of those almost every time I tried to get onto TAM. I now had competing anti-viruses. And apparently neither one of them was eliminating the threat, only warning me.
So I then uninstalled AVG. Once I uninstalled AVG, WebRoot could do it’s job. The problem is fixed.
I also had WebRoot installed for cybersecurity.
My point? Check the anti-virus on your computer. Make sure it’s up-to-date and your subscription is current. Use it to scan your computer and fix any adware/malware problem. Make sure you do not have more than one anti-virus on your computer since they will compete with each other and neither will work very well.
One of the dozen or more banners, ads, directs are hanging you up... if you look to the bottom of your browser page you will see them load or simply view the source and you will see them throughout the load.
If you use Opera, you can block ads from the basic preferences, it's built-in to the browser app and see if your problem goes away.
If it does... you have a perfect storm alignment in your other browser with ads or such.
A few of you have reported the url's for these redirects, we need those in order to block them as they are piggy backing through corrupted adds, the plus side of this is that it's not an issue of your computer.
Merely an annoyance
Yesterday on my Windows tablet I was getting redirected to a ransomware site. It was immediate upon clicking on any thread. Presumably a compromised ad. No problem today on my Mac (I did not have access to my Mac yesterday). The site had a robo-voice saying Microsoft had notified them my computer was compromised, and to call the phone number on the screen immediately. Their script locked up IE to the point of not even being able to close the browser, but a reboot of the tablet cleared the problem.
Go into the browser history of IE and see if you can pull the url of that page and post it here. If you haven't been gotten it again, we can hope that it was already blocked but doesn't hurt to double check.
If you come across it again, even using private browsing you should be able to grab the URL straight from the window. Thanks for your help in this, and sorry for the trouble everyone.
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