Tuesday, May 20, 2008 11:30 PM
sandi
OK, this is NASTY!!!!
A fraudware web site that will *not* close.
I see this:
I try to close using Red X, I get this:
I try to close using the Red X, which has always been sufficient in the past. In this case, the dialogue box goes away but the god-damned window is still open.
So, I go have to go to Task Manager and shut down the IE window process:
I shut down the correct iexplorer.exe process and the window is FINALLY gone,taking along with it other Windows that were open:
What URLs hosted a link that led to this nasty experience (that's right, it wasn't a malvertizement). I'm not telling because it seriously is NASTY!
So, where is "antivirus-scanner.com" hosted? At securehost (we are not surprised, are we).
Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits