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Car type: Austin Seven RP 1932
This Mouse Mat Website has infected my computer. DO NOT USE IT.
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Sorry Smiley, I do not understand your post.
If you have an infection on your computer I would be absolutely astonished if you got it from the Ebay link I provided above.
My mouse mat was bought from this listing and we have been using Ebay frequently for several years now.
IF you got infected from Ebay please report it to them and they will no doubt be as astonished as I am
Regards, John
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No apparent problems for me from the ebay link.
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Nothing from my side, tried the link 3 times
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Okay, folks, I did get on to the website and as I closed down a message flashed up telling me that,
THAT WEBSITE HAS INFECTED YOUR COMPUTER AND PUT 30% OF CONTENT AT RISK.If no one
else has experienced this then I apologise for the error and will investigate further.
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Location: Beautiful Northumberland
Car type: 1933 RP Saloon (aka Mildred)
31-03-2018, 10:02 PM
(This post was last modified: 31-03-2018, 10:03 PM by Andy Bennett.)
Smiley
That message is the virus link. Hope you didn't click on it as I assume it invited you to link to a 'clean up' service, which will instal a virus, usually the type that scrambles your data and asks for a ransom. By loading an exe virus file like this it bypasses many virus protection.
It could have been dormant on your system for a while so probably nothing to do with the eBay link just coincidental timing as it activated on a randomly closed website to suggest to you that it was responding to a threat rather that it actually being the threat itself.
As said above do virus check quickly and back everything up if not too late.
These types of warning message are the new pop up virus source.
Andy B
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think!