Malware / adware at the House?

[pantheraba]

MB, Starting last night I get popups from MediaGemm and AdArcade...but only when I open the TreeHouse.

I left a lot of different tabs open last night...got up to a clean screen (no popups...just normal sites).

Within 20 seconds of opening the House or a different forum once I am in the House I get popups. Is it just me? Norton is not doing anything about it for me...not sure what is going on.

I checked the Programs in Control Panel but nothing there.

Ideas?

 

[Raj]

All looks normal for me.

Stay of the porn sites?

But in all seriousness wasn't there another thread like this? I think it was a browser issue IIRC.

 

[pantheraba]

And it may not be the house. I just remembered that my grandson had a friend over yesterday and they were playing on my computer. Never been any problems with my grandson using the computer but the friend that was over is kind of sketchy. I think they were visiting Pokemon sites. I may have been bamboozled.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That last sentence - spot on!!!

 

[Steve Mack]

No problem here on PC or laptop. I stopped using Norton years ago because it was crap but I think it's a bit better now.

Avira is good for free. Download Malwarebytes it's free or you can buy premium. Just run that and you should be ok. You can keep it on a USB just in case you crash, then just run it from that. I've had it for years.

 

[BlackSmith]

My love affair with building and maintaining computers was brought to screeching halt by end users.

 

[Merle Nelson]

No problem with my Galaxy smartphone and The House.

 

[pantheraba]

Figured it out...I did a history and found that arcadespot was visited by two young boys yesterday...playing pokemon games. I went into Chrome and told it to block that site...seems OK now.

Madness. Gonna have a good talk with young'uns.

 

[SkwerI]

Clear the cookies from that site also.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Just tell them to buy their own computers!

 

[pantheraba]

Clear the cookies from that site also.

Will do...thanks.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Do it while eating some cookies... THAT'LL show em!!!

 

[Tree09]

Don't be too hard on them, they are probably too young to know stuff about computer viruses and such. And if they aren't, slip them a smoke, a beer, and tell them to look at t&a like i did at that age jk bud, glad you got it sorted out.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

My love affair with building and maintaining computers was brought to screeching halt by end users.

Totally get it!

 

[pantheraba]

Don't be too hard on them, they are probably too young to know stuff about computer viruses and such. And if they aren't, slip them a smoke, a beer, and tell them to look at t&a like i did at that age jk bud, glad you got it sorted out.

Nah...it'll be an educational kind of talk...no meanness. Just glad they were looking for Pokemons...

 

[SeanKroll]

You have to monitor kids with computers. Even in the same room, there will be temptation.