Climate change on YBW

[Nick]

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You will know immediately if you get this crap, loads of fake warnings, scan offers, click to purchase etc. In case anyone does - here's what just happened:

~ Couldn't run Internet Explorer at all - 'Vista Antivirus 2010 has blocked this program from accessing the internet'

.~ Firefox triggered a fake virus warning but then ran.

~ Couldn't run Malwarebytes Antimalware or AVG

~ Could download Malwarebytes (via Firefox) but could not install it

~ Looked up some nonesense (via Firefox) on removing this but couldn't find any of the registry entries it gave

~ Was about to disable System Restore and boot in Safe Mode to run Malwarebytes then decided to run Sytem Restore instead

~ Set the system back to yesterday

~ When it rebooted ran Malwarebytes - it found one browser hijack item. While it was running AVG also popped up a threat, which was removed.

~ Since then all seems OK, fingers crossed - will post here if anything else occurs. Can't be certain it was Donald's link, but not prepared to take the chance.

[Telo]

Nothing unusual happened here - cleared McAfee firewall at the time. Also had Malawarebytes running in the background. Subsequent scans by both came up with nothing. Had NoScript running at the time as well and noticed nothing unusual.

[Nick]

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Well, it may not have been your direct link I had difficulty downloading the MP3 - it semi-downloaded and stopped so I clicked on another link on the same page which appeared to offer the same download.

There were no other processes running here and it was a file sharing website, so I removed your link as a precaution, hope you don't mind. I was up until quarter to three removing the crap from my system

[Telo]

I removed your link as a precaution, hope you don't mind. I was up until quarter to three removing the crap from my system

Nope, I don't mind - quite right if there was some other dodgy link on the site. However it has rather taken the shine away from the great C John Taylor's ode to Prince Charles. This is to be regretted, particularly as he was undoubtedly Seil's greatest poet, and this poem was an especially memorable work.

In the best traditions of thread drift I see we've managed to cover global warming, censorship (or what passes for it), C John Taylor, and trojans (or are they worms?).

[Mark]

In the best traditions of thread drift I see we've managed to cover global warming, censorship (or what passes for it), C John Taylor, and trojans (or are they worms?).

Yes, but should someone from outside Liverpool be an MP for Liverpool?