13 0|0|Anybody else get the below message when doing a search on the net? A pinkish box comes up & has the below info in it. The url on that page shows about:blank..|maraj|maraj64@hotmail.com|08:38:50|10/15/2009|
Posted on Oct-15-09 at 08:38 AM (Eastern) by 207.190.75.230




Danger: AVG Search-Shield has detected active threats on this page and has blocked access for your protection.
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.

IP Address:

For additional information click here.

Suggestions:

Click the “Back” button on your browser to return to the previous page and choose another link (recommended).
If you would like to ignore the warning and continue to the page, click here (not recommended) Note: AVG will continue to block dangerous content associated with this page.

We live in the Land of the Free only because of the Brave!

Please identify yourself in 1st email w/name/username. Due to recent problem trades, if I haven't traded w/you before, I will probably require you send your end 1st or I'll need LEGIT trade references/feedback. I will be happy to provide the same. IF you plan to hold your end til you've received mine, I will need to know that IMMEDIATELY, BEFORE trade is finalized.


If you're happy w/our trade, please leave feedback for me at:
http://www.refundsweepers.com/dcforum/feedback/1133.html
I'll gladly do the same for you upon request.:)

1|1|i have gotten that message recently. must be something new from avg.|ppe1952|MATWELL3@ROCHESTER.RR.COM|08:44:06|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 08:44 AM (Eastern) by 66.67.30.165

Remember your manners: when god answers your prayers----- say thank you. 2|1|i received that message too|stovers10|stovers1@yahoo.com|08:48:46|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 08:48 AM (Eastern) by 173.80.53.33

i received that message too 3|1|Did you ignore the warning & continue or did you return to the previous page?|maraj|maraj64@hotmail.com|08:51:08|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 08:51 AM (Eastern) by 207.190.75.230

We live in the Land of the Free only because of the Brave!

Please identify yourself in 1st email w/name/username. Due to recent problem trades, if I haven't traded w/you before, I will probably require you send your end 1st or I'll need LEGIT trade references/feedback. I will be happy to provide the same. IF you plan to hold your end til you've received mine, I will need to know that IMMEDIATELY, BEFORE trade is finalized.


If you're happy w/our trade, please leave feedback for me at:
http://www.refundsweepers.com/dcforum/feedback/1133.html
I'll gladly do the same for you upon request.:)

4|2|Have NOT gotten it.. guess my ESET NOD32 blocks it.. best anti virus around is NOD32 imho|car_mont|car_mont@hotmail.com|09:20:42|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 09:20 AM (Eastern) by 72.159.59.5

PLEASE INCLUDE - USER NAME AND YOUR OFFER if we are in a trade. 5|1|also do you ever run Malwarebyte's FREE Anti-Malware program.. it can catch and remove alot of BUGs that other programs don't seem to remove.. |car_mont|car_mont@hotmail.com|09:51:47|10/15/2009|

Last edited on Oct-15-09 at 09:53 AM (Eastern) by 72.159.59.5

edited to add: some programs are BUGs and don't even show up in the ADD/REMOVE
computor program.. so this Malwarebyte's program comes in handy at times.

PLEASE INCLUDE - USER NAME AND YOUR OFFER if we are in a trade. 6|2|Yes, I use Malwarebytes & just updated & ran the quickscan this morning, but it didn't find anything. Plan to run the longer scan in a few minutes while I run my son to work. |maraj|maraj64@hotmail.com|10:15:45|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 10:15 AM (Eastern) by 207.190.75.230

We live in the Land of the Free only because of the Brave!

Please identify yourself in 1st email w/name/username. Due to recent problem trades, if I haven't traded w/you before, I will probably require you send your end 1st or I'll need LEGIT trade references/feedback. I will be happy to provide the same. IF you plan to hold your end til you've received mine, I will need to know that IMMEDIATELY, BEFORE trade is finalized.


If you're happy w/our trade, please leave feedback for me at:
http://www.refundsweepers.com/dcforum/feedback/1133.html
I'll gladly do the same for you upon request.:)

7|3|ooooh I'm slow.. you are an AVG user.. so it is blocking a threat page for you... and telling you so. , and if not AVG user, guess they are trying to get you to use their product..|car_mont|car_mont@hotmail.com|11:34:56|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 11:34 AM (Eastern) by 72.159.59.5

PLEASE INCLUDE - USER NAME AND YOUR OFFER if we are in a trade. 8|1|Got the answer from my pc tech (inside)|maraj|maraj64@hotmail.com|11:44:36|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 11:44 AM (Eastern) by 207.190.75.230

He says the AVG box is legit & that it's likely detecting a virus w/one of the links on the page I'm trying to access. When I do a search for something, the search engine (google) brings up a page w/a list of several sites w/links, & AVG is detecting that one of those sites/links has a virus, so not the page itself, just one of the sites/links listed on that page. So.... he said altho it's safe to continue to the next page, just be careful of which link I click on. HTH. :)

We live in the Land of the Free only because of the Brave!

Please identify yourself in 1st email w/name/username. Due to recent problem trades, if I haven't traded w/you before, I will probably require you send your end 1st or I'll need LEGIT trade references/feedback. I will be happy to provide the same. IF you plan to hold your end til you've received mine, I will need to know that IMMEDIATELY, BEFORE trade is finalized.


If you're happy w/our trade, please leave feedback for me at:
http://www.refundsweepers.com/dcforum/feedback/1133.html
I'll gladly do the same for you upon request.:)

9|1|DO NOT DO WHAT IT SAYS IT IS NOT FROM AVG I did a couple months ago and I swear it opened the death tomb for my computer lol took my son forever |teener|teenerzacsneenee@yahoo.com|11:55:29|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 11:55 AM (Eastern) by 96.28.100.251

to clean it up and still to this day my computer will just start talking to me with adds songs and crap 10|2|I believe that was the blue pop up that wanted you to buy AVG & it was not a legit AVG ad, but a type of malware.|maraj|maraj64@hotmail.com|12:32:45|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 12:32 PM (Eastern) by 207.190.75.230

This isn't an ad that pops up but a pinkish AVG dialogue box & it is legit, but it's a warning that's just letting AVG users know that there is a link to a site on the page that does have a virus. When you do a search, ever notice the green stars w/a white check mark on the right side of the blue link to a site? That's AVG, but unless you have the paid-for AVG, it isn't able to tell you anything more, thus the pink dialogue box (at least letting you know one of the links/sites is bad, just not which one) so you just have to be careful w/which link you click on.


We live in the Land of the Free only because of the Brave!

Please identify yourself in 1st email w/name/username. Due to recent problem trades, if I haven't traded w/you before, I will probably require you send your end 1st or I'll need LEGIT trade references/feedback. I will be happy to provide the same. IF you plan to hold your end til you've received mine, I will need to know that IMMEDIATELY, BEFORE trade is finalized.


If you're happy w/our trade, please leave feedback for me at:
http://www.refundsweepers.com/dcforum/feedback/1133.html
I'll gladly do the same for you upon request.:)

11|3|I had an AVG warning (pink box) on Yahoo games yesterday....I ignored it was I have NEVER had an AVG popup when loading a page.....I know Yahoo could have been hacked, but I havent had any thing weird since yesterday, so I think Tina was right, it wasnt really from AVG (in my case anyway).|saint6811|waylan@comcast.net|16:59:09|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 04:59 PM (Eastern) by 98.213.175.237

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
--Thomas Jefferson--

You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.

~Abraham Lincoln


HAWKS PRIDE #31 #57 12|4|I remembered also seeing an AVG notice in place of an ad at the top of the page in Yahoo the other day...|maraj|maraj64@hotmail.com|18:35:00|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 06:35 PM (Eastern) by 207.190.75.230

so I called my pc tech back & told him that. He insists that the AVG notices are legit, saying the one I seen on Yahoo was because AVG detected there could be a virus in that ad. My tech said that there may not necessarily be a virus, per se, but that my AVG is definitely detecting something amiss (virus, spyware/adware, etc.) so is warning me not to click on that ad & to be careful w/the site links that come up in my searches. It's just like when you run AVG to scan your computer, it'll detect that some of those coupon things (that we download in order to be able to print certain coupons) are bad. They're not a virus but are actually a form of spyware so AVG finds them as it detects that.
I haven't seen another AVG notice while in Yahoo since then, but I'd forgotten all about it til today.


We live in the Land of the Free only because of the Brave!

Please identify yourself in 1st email w/name/username. Due to recent problem trades, if I haven't traded w/you before, I will probably require you send your end 1st or I'll need LEGIT trade references/feedback. I will be happy to provide the same. IF you plan to hold your end til you've received mine, I will need to know that IMMEDIATELY, BEFORE trade is finalized.


If you're happy w/our trade, please leave feedback for me at:
http://www.refundsweepers.com/dcforum/feedback/1133.html
I'll gladly do the same for you upon request.:)

13|1|I agree with Teener|mommyto3|bunkhouse5@aol.com|20:20:34|10/15/2009|

Posted on Oct-15-09 at 08:20 PM (Eastern) by 76.112.14.252

I got the same thing and opened it. It made my computer unusable. Ended up taking it to my computer guy that took him a whole day to undo. Apparently this is going around since my computer was not the only one that received this "thing".