Strange..scrolling keeps taking me off site

bababardwan

September 03, 2010, 09:04 AM posted in General Discussion

This keeps happening this evening. Scrolling down through a post, I keep getting taken to this site:

http://search.mywebsearch.com/mywebsearch/GGmain.jhtml?searchfor=wd.sharethis.com&n=77ce5cf7&st=dns

I've never even done such a search

go_manly

September 03, 2010, 09:18 AM

My antivirus program (Vipre) tells me on trying to enter this site:

VIPRE has determined that the site

you are trying to visit contains potentially harmful or objectionable content.

bababardwan

thanks mate. I take it you mean the one I linked to above?

go_manly

Yes, the linked site, not CPod itself. I hope you haven't already picked up a virus.

bababardwan

thanks again go_manly. I just did a full virus scan and it came up zippo.

go_manly

I was previously using Avast, and it kept telling me I had no viruses. But my computer was getting slower and slower. I switched to Vipre, it found about 10 viruses, and everything is back to normal.

http://www.pcantivirusreviews.com/ rates Vipre as the number one for 2010.

I find it interesting that you say you 'just' did a full virus scan. Perhaps you don't have much on your computer, but my scans generally take at least a couple of hours, much longer if I do a full scan.

xiao_liang

And if you don't want to pay, AVG is a consistently highly rated free virus checker.

http://free.avg.com/

bababardwan

thanks xiao_liang,

that's exactly what I got onto after my post above about my clean scan....uninstalling my virus scanner [which happened to be AVG....I notice your comment below] and going with go_manly's viper. Seems to be doing a sterling job. It looks like it was just something in the lowest threat category "potentially unwanted" and in fact viper has allowed it. At least ..it was the "mywebsearch toolbar" and that was the site that kept appearing...a mywebsearch search. I think it must be one of those toolbars that gets downloaded when you download other stuff.

bababardwan

I find it interesting that you say you 'just' did a full virus scan

...yeah, good observation. I have wondered about it myself. Previously AVG full scans did take around an hour or so. But for months now they've been more like 15 minutes even for a full scan. I'm not sure if it's because of upgrading to windows 7 or not. Mind you, this Viper is over an hour and still going. Maybe AVG has got lazy in later versions. Dunno. Anyhow, I really appreciate y'all trying to help. Muchos Gracias. :)