Naked ladies welcoming me

[Lawnboy18]

Hi Lawnboy,
In answer to your original question I think you may have a malware infection from securepaths.com

It sounds similar to a problem I had on my Mac and it was a pig to get rid of - my normal antivirus prog couldn't even find it.

My research suggested that whilst it may not be malevolent it is certainly irritating, and in cases where "lovely ladies" pop up unexpectedly, it could leave you with some explaining to do if it happened in view of someone else. [blush]

The purpose of this malware is to redirect mouse clicks, often from Google or Bing searches, to sites that are paying it for those cheeky redirects.

I eventually found ClamXav recommended on the Apple forum - its a malware removal tool available from the App Store and their own website. It found the malware inside two emails that had been deleted months previously in MS Entourage. However, removing them was difficult and somewhat technical. (There's a ClamXav forum that has help on this.)

During my search for a solution there were hundreds of people asking for help on this particular malware but nowt of much relevance to the Mac community. After weeks of (on/off) research this was the only solution I could find.

Best of luck with it.

Chris
Shropshire, England

Thanks a lot for that info! I will look into that also!

 

[bertsmobile1]

Hi Lawnboy,

Big Snip
It found the malware inside two emails that had been deleted months previously in MS Entourage. However, removing them was difficult and somewhat technical.
Chris
Shropshire, England

Hence the original warning to avoid Microsloth products.
What those who know far better than me said it was that from a security point of view it is the worst written, most easily hacked into softwear on the market.
From around 2000 Mac allowed 2 levels of deletion.
normal delete which simply removes the directory information so you can not the actual item, but it stays on your hard drive
Secure delete which actually removes all of the item then flags the hard drive space as vacant so it gets written over thus rendering the item unavailable.
Mal wear oft hides things in emails then when you visit a particular site it activates the files.
Browsing your emails rather than downloading them prevents anything from being written to your hard drive because you actually read them off the ISP's computer and they strip every thing over than text out of them before they are cached so you are utilising their much more powerful and up to date protection softwear.

Downside is you have to manually log into your ISP's server and read your emails, they don't come to you.
Upside is no nasties come to you either, it is a lot easier than you think and makes managing your electronic communications a lot eaier because you collect & read your mail when you want to.

 

[greeknasty]

just a heads up, when first searching for an issue this forum came up on google search and when i first clicked the porn/date site popped up. really didnt bother me since they were hot but just giving the heads up its still an issue (if it hasnt been looked into yet):thumbsup::thumbsup:
oh and no i dont have any malware/virus issues. my pc is clean

 

[Mikel1]

It could be worse, naked guys.:laughing:

 

[Muhammad]

Uh oh. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We're fixing the problem right now. Please let me know if it happens again.

 

[greeknasty]

no problem. it only occurs on differnet pc's when i first first click on lawnmoweroforum. for example the first time i ever saw the site on google i clicked and it popped up, hasnt happened again on this pc. then i used my chromebook and googled the same thing to bring up the page i wanted and it happened on that chromebook(hasnt happened since) so its the first initial clicks on a computer i believe

 

[bain19]

Uh oh. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We're fixing the problem right now. Please let me know if it happens again.

same thing happening to me, came from google and the adult friend finder website popped up ...maybe its one of your site banner ads thats causing it ?

 

[Shughes717]

It happened to me as well when I logged in for my iPad, so I don't think its a pc problem. It hasn't happened in a couple of months.

 

[logan01]

Probably embedded in one of the banners. I too get the adultfinder now and then when clicking within the site. Today I got it when I googled the site. Mine isn't a popup. It launches in the tab. Has only come up on Linux Firefox and not in Windows. If I access this forum with my android tablet, the site is blocked with a warning of malicious content however I opt to proceed to the site. The adultfinder page does not appear. She looks familiar. :licking:

 

[reynoldston]

I have been having this problem that when I click on lawn mower forum when I am on Google, I get redirected to something like "adult finder". A naked lady covers my whole computer screen. Why is this?

Now nothing wrong with that, can't think of a better welcome. The wife might not like it, wifes just don't understand things like that.