Clean-up FAKE Virus warnings
In the last week I have received multiple FAKE virus warnings which completely take over my browser (Firefox, upto date) with warning that my computer is infected. These are obviously being served by an "ad" or other sidebar story on the news story page I am reading. It is not consist with any particular news site as it always happens at the first click of the story from the basic Yahoo! news feed homepage. It does NOT happen immediately, but usually after I have been reading for a few seconds the story and I have NOT clicked anything else including NOT clicking thru to read the complete story from it's original source. It is for this reason I assume it is tied to an "ad" that is loading to the page while I am reading. I have to close the browser completely to get out of it and clear my cache before reopening Firefox otherwise it comes back up right away. The I.P. of two of these occurences are... (165.227.94.94 & 165.227.193.3) and one had a full domain name rather than an I.P.... (Curationservices.com) You need to do a better job of scanning the content that is being served up along with your news summaries. I am certain less educated users click through these warnings and get actual "infections" or WORSE. Clean this **** up!!!
Mark Sorenson
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Timothy Smith
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marwarebytes is a free download that will kill the virus
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Timothy Smith
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IP-track.org.............both of those are from NYC. (IP lookup)