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M1SSV8
01-07-2009, 08:41 AM
This keeps popping up, when I click the Link the Photo's (not work friendly) thread....
Any ideason what it is? If I click cancel, it still lets me veiw the thread...


http://i797.photobucket.com/albums/yy254/M1SSV8/untitled.jpg

TheRealMadMax
01-07-2009, 09:38 AM
Mate, I would suggest you have a trojan or other virus like program running in the background on your PC.

The name in the pic says 'Txmafia.com'. A quick google search suggests it is a Flash game type website. You may have downloaded a game perhaps? or some codecs to play a video?

Either way, try and uninstall any crappy games, or anything with 'Mafia' in the program name, then run a complete system scan with AVG or similar.

It could be possible that it is a 'phishing' attack, e.g. it is wanting you to enter user names and passwords, so that it can use these for nefarious purposes.

M1SSV8
01-07-2009, 10:00 AM
I have a scanner running, and it is only happening with that particular thread?! Also havent downloaded anything... apart from Firefox recently...

Ill do another scan tho.

Smitty
01-07-2009, 12:20 PM
Use the option in Firefox to turn off...(ignore if you like)
anything from txmafia.com . It can be stopped easily that way

XLR8 V8
01-07-2009, 03:29 PM
The image posted in the 2nd post was hosted on a site that now requires you to login to view. I've removed that post from the thread so you shouldn't see the error now.