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How does one go about reporting a seemingly malicious website? Something my mother tried to access a couple of days ago has resulted in a rather alarming My Computer page (this is in XP) being loaded notifying the detection of 200 or so trojans. This comes with the following message:
Your computer remains infected by threats. They can cause data loss and damage and need to be cured as soon as possible. Return to Personal Antivirus and download it secure to your PC. (sic) Press OK or CANCEL.
Ostensibly there is nothing odd about this site - it provides "free" downloads of printable crosswords, though most things with the word free are usually seem best avoided. She uses the free AVG, but even this
shows the site as acceptable with the message: this page contains no active threats.
Using Task Manager my mum closed the process and shut down her machine. Apparently without hitch as she is able to boot-up successfully tihs morning without any conspicuous problems. I cannot be certain of this as she is about 150 miles away. But it all seems OK.
Thanks for any help.
Your computer remains infected by threats. They can cause data loss and damage and need to be cured as soon as possible. Return to Personal Antivirus and download it secure to your PC. (sic) Press OK or CANCEL.
Ostensibly there is nothing odd about this site - it provides "free" downloads of printable crosswords, though most things with the word free are usually seem best avoided. She uses the free AVG, but even this
shows the site as acceptable with the message: this page contains no active threats.
Using Task Manager my mum closed the process and shut down her machine. Apparently without hitch as she is able to boot-up successfully tihs morning without any conspicuous problems. I cannot be certain of this as she is about 150 miles away. But it all seems OK.
Thanks for any help.