[Mod-Lady Valkyrie]

I was just on Google images and clicked through to a site and all these warning messages came up purporting to be from Windows, telling me my computer was infected with spyware and trojans. A window popped up with a button offering to remove them. I found this fairly suspect and wouldn't like to click any button from a pop-up like that. McAfee, my active virus scan programme which I pay for, wasn't popping up with anything at all. So I decided to click "cancel" to try and get rid of the screen and then manually scan my computer myself.

When I clicked "cancel", a further pop-up appeared - a little grey box that would have run a setup.exe file had I clicked on it. Clicking the crosses in the corner of all these boxes (even on Firefox itself) wasn't working, so I hit control/alt/delete and closed Firefox down with Task Manager and they all disappeared. I then opened McAfee, which said all the virus scanning equipment was active and my computer was secure. I am running a full scan right now to double-check.

Did I do the right thing??

[Fae*Aibell]

I've never had this happen on our computer but i think you definatly did the right thing by shutting everything down, sounds very suspicious to me. We used to get phone calls here nearly on a daily basis for about 2 months with someone claiming they were from microsoft and that i had a virus on my computer and they would talk me through how to get rid of it over the phone but i had to allow them have remote access to my computer from theres. I never did it thankfully as it turns out, (saw it on the news) that these people were trying to scam their way into having access to peoples bank accounts in their computer and they had nothing to do with microsoft. Trust your instincts and McAfee will find anything suspicious on your computer.

[Mod-Lady Valkyrie]

I'm glad you think so too hon!

[jl046100]

I agree def shut it down sounds suspicious x

[Jaidynsmum]

Yeah you did the right thing. I get those pop up a few times a year, they're fine as long as you don't click on anything on them, they tend to be more malware than anything else, but better to be safe than sorry. They tell you your computer is infected and want you to download something to clean it up, they always 'find' about 20 trojuns and 35 viruses, erm yeah how dumb do you think my anti-virus is?!
I always have to shut down and restart my computer as they are usually impoosible to 'x out' I then run my anti malware, which occasionally picks something up and deals with it.
They're another version of the phone calls from someone claiming to work for a company that has detected a virus on your computer, erm how do you know? Are you hacking into my computer? That's illegal........cue them hanging up