"Threat detected...."

[swee'pea99]

Should I be worried?

It does say it was blocked. And a Malwarebytes full scan has found nothing. Can I relax?

 

[Ian H]

Possibly bundled with some software you've downloaded.

 

[classic33]

Trying to redirect towards a site, based in Brazil with seven members?

 

[swee'pea99]

Thanks. It seems to have stopped bleating at me (those things were popping up every minute or so for ten or 15 minutes) and the computer seems to be behaving itself. I'll run a deep avast scan in a while and see if that finds anything.

 

[steve50]

Schedule a boot time scan

 

[User6179]

Should I be worried?

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It does say it was blocked. And a Malwarebytes full scan has found nothing. Can I relax?

Think it is something to do with Google chrome which will connect to internet even if you don't use it.

 

[steve50]

i personally avoid Chrome, have you ever started your task manager then started chrome to see how many instances of chrome actually start up. Mozilla firefox every time for me.

 

[Tin Pot]

Leave the device

Leave the building

Nuke the site from above

Change name

Move house

 

[swee'pea99]

Schedule a boot time scan

Is that more thorough than a regular deep scan? I don't reboot this computer as a rule - it just goes to sleep overnight, but is never actually switched off.

 

[steve50]

Is that more thorough than a regular deep scan? I don't reboot this computer as a rule - it just goes to sleep overnight, but is never actually switched off.

Short answer, yes.

 

[swee'pea99]

Leave the device

Leave the building

Nuke the site from above

Change name

Move house

Should I emigrate? You can't be too careful..

 

[swee'pea99]

Short answer, yes.

Thanks - I'll give it a go.

 

[User6179]

i personally avoid Chrome, have you ever started your task manager then started chrome to see how many instances of chrome actually start up. Mozilla firefox every time for me.

I would avoid windows 10 then as well if you think chrome is bad, Windows 10 which I upgraded to last week is a nightmare , had to remove chrome and other non essential apps which run in the background as my computer could not cope with everything .

 

[steve50]

I would avoid windows 10 then as well if you think chrome is bad, Windows 10 which I upgraded to last week is a nightmare , had to remove chrome and other non essential apps which run in the background as my computer could not cope with everything .

Unless you have a fairly high spec pc i wouldn't bother with windows 10.

 

[Crackle]

Command prompt, Format c:\

Solves everything.