Dublin70 Posted September 7, 2017 ID:1161280 Share Posted September 7, 2017 MWB premium. Was browsing MSN articles this a.m. Suddenly, the screen looked transparent - stalled briefly - turned to black and displayed a small msg box- about 4 inches by 4 inches. Full of small writing the first line of which said, "an error with your system has been detected ... blah blah blah. The screen shut down very quickly so that was all I could read. Thought I was in for a malware attack but now I'm back up and running - all seems fine. Ran a threat scan and nothing came up. Any thoughts. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted September 8, 2017 ID:1161546 Share Posted September 8, 2017 More than likely this was a popup from a malware server trying to trick you into calling a phone number for support... its a know scam going around right now... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublin70 Posted September 8, 2017 Author ID:1161708 Share Posted September 8, 2017 That's sure what it looked like. Gad. Sure glad I have MWB protection. Thanks!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted September 8, 2017 ID:1161817 Share Posted September 8, 2017 Your welcome... stay safe out there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublin70 Posted September 14, 2017 Author ID:1163464 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Update sept 14 - same thing happened again this morning. On MSN site - shut itself down after blue box. Started up and after a windows repair attempt which came up on its own, shut it down as it wasn't seeming to do anything. When I started up again, all was working. I guess this is a bsod so I'm going to have to research this and see how to prevent them. Grrrrr. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted September 14, 2017 ID:1163490 Share Posted September 14, 2017 It could just have been an add once again in the MSN site... also Windows updates may have been installed on your computer that may have caused your system not to come back up to a normal screen.. I have seen that once today on a laptop (had to do a system restore) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublin70 Posted September 14, 2017 Author ID:1163521 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Maybe the updates did something. I put 3 on yesterday afternoon. This a.m. the shutdown occurred and system balked at going back to work. Windows forum guy recommends that I run a mwb scan in safe mode. I ran a scan in normal fashion and it came up with nothing. Do you think a scan in safe mode a good idea? Thanks again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firefox Posted September 14, 2017 ID:1163580 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Running it in safe mode will yield the same results, if the scan completes OK in normal mode there is no need to scan in safe mode. When you scanned did you have it check for rootkits? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublin70 Posted September 14, 2017 Author ID:1163601 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Don't recall. if that is something I have to select rather than an automatic option, probably not. Would probably be a good idea to do the rootkit thing tho...when I get back on desktop I will do it. MWB is doing a good job protecting my system. Just don't know how to prevent this stuff from happening. So, the MSN site has some embedded malware that I'm picking up? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublin70 Posted September 14, 2017 Author ID:1163708 Share Posted September 14, 2017 When I select rootkits, it ran for 45 minutes and I had to cancel to move on. Is it ok to deselect some things so it doesn't take so long. If not, I'll just run it when I can leave it alone for as long as it takes. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcollins Posted September 14, 2017 ID:1163718 Share Posted September 14, 2017 The rootkit scan will take longer, I would let it complete fully Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dublin70 Posted September 14, 2017 Author ID:1163719 Share Posted September 14, 2017 Thanks. Will do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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