Last evening I was using Google to search for names in OH's tree.I put his 3x great grandmother's name in and Google came up with its usual list of sites. The one at the top was clearly a pornographic one but underneath it said "This site may harm your computer" ( I don't have anything like McAfee Site Advisor by the way so I was a bit puzzled as to how it came to tell me that). Whilst I was taking that in, my anti-virus program popped up telling me that there was something nasty on my computer which it recommended I let it clean off. Since I hadn't clicked on any of the sites listed on Google including the one that said it might be harmful,I don't understand how it got on to my computer.I thought you had to actually visit an infected site to pick these things up. The nasty was something called VirTool:J5/Obfuscator which was apparently, a severe threat.
HOW on earth did I get this thing? Is it Google that is infected? I'm very wary of using Google or any search engine again if you can get stuff like this just by certain sites being thrown up from a search
Ann
HOW on earth did I get this thing? Is it Google that is infected? I'm very wary of using Google or any search engine again if you can get stuff like this just by certain sites being thrown up from a search
Ann
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