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Title: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 08 December 2013, 16:44:29
Been surfing on ebay looking at electrical products....

My avast has been doing its nut on just about every shop on ebay i click on  :-\

Last shop i clicked on, it whinged about 19 different viruses  :-\
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: omega3000 on 09 December 2013, 13:48:36
Been surfing on ebay looking at electrical products....

My avast has been doing its nut on just about every shop on ebay i click on  :-\

Last shop i clicked on, it whinged about 19 different viruses :-\

No problems here , sites running a bit duff/slow but no virussisses  ;)
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: dbug on 09 December 2013, 17:09:29
No probs here with ebay, and I'm also running Avast ;)
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: TheBoy on 09 December 2013, 17:28:49
More likely your computer has I'm afraid...
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 09 December 2013, 17:55:34
More likely your computer has I'm afraid...

Hmmm.....just kicked Avast off on a full system scan..... :-\ and i check the box to check every file....might take a while  ::)
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: TheBoy on 09 December 2013, 21:11:28
More likely your computer has I'm afraid...

Hmmm.....just kicked Avast off on a full system scan..... :-\ and i check the box to check every file....might take a while  ::)
Check for rootkits as well, as thats a convenient way to hide stuff...
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: cleggy on 09 December 2013, 22:19:38
I've also noticed that when viewing certain items a pop up screen appears saying you have a tracking virus and to run a scan they provide. You can't delete or remove the pop up window only by closing IE does it go away.  Spybot and F- Secure find nothing. :o
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: dbug on 09 December 2013, 22:54:16
I've also noticed that when viewing certain items a pop up screen appears saying you have a tracking virus and to run a scan they provide. You can't delete or remove the pop up window only by closing IE does it go away.  Spybot and F- Secure find nothing. :o

Try Malwarebytes mate  ;)
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: cleggy on 10 December 2013, 02:44:10
I've also noticed that when viewing certain items a pop up screen appears saying you have a tracking virus and to run a scan they provide. You can't delete or remove the pop up window only by closing IE does it go away.  Spybot and F- Secure find nothing. :o

Try Malwarebytes mate  ;)

I have and it found 22 PUPs :y
Title: Re: Has fleabay caught a cold?
Post by: Taxi_Driver on 10 December 2013, 07:39:03
More likely your computer has I'm afraid...

Hmmm.....just kicked Avast off on a full system scan..... :-\ and i check the box to check every file....might take a while  ::)
Check for rootkits as well, as thats a convenient way to hide stuff...


Done  :y

And avast found 1 nasty that it got rid of  :y.......carnt remember now what it was and the scan history is empty  :-\

Bit concerning that avast missed it in the first place......