I posted this in the Paige thread, but thought I'd post it here to see if anyone else has ever had this happen....
I have no idea if this is related or not to what is now happening with my laptop.....
I do a Google alert for any Paige stories that come through, as I know many of you do. One came through tonight and it was what I thought was some type of blogger's website. It even had some text somewhere in what I clicked on that said "Models Inc." so of course that intrigued me So I opened this email alert and it said I needed to download something to view it (it said it was a video). Well dumb me clicked on a couple things to run something (I'm pretty computer illiterate sometimes) and now it seems that my laptop has some weird trojan crap going on. It started having all these pop-ups to fix it, but I think that is part of what got into my computer. I don't know if these are legit spyware "fixers" for lack of a better word.
I'm sorry if I am not making sense, but if anyone happened to have the same thing occur, I'd love to know. NOw I'm using my desktop and may try to contact some computer-literate people tomorrow to see how I can the things off my laptop since I don't even know what a "safe" way to do this is. I was all set to send out my email newsletter, but I'm even afraid to do it on my desktop incase something is all messed up.
Sorry for rambling, I'm just so confused and now I'm mad at myself for clicking on these things because it was something about Paige. Thanks for reading!
I have no idea if this is related or not to what is now happening with my laptop.....
I do a Google alert for any Paige stories that come through, as I know many of you do. One came through tonight and it was what I thought was some type of blogger's website. It even had some text somewhere in what I clicked on that said "Models Inc." so of course that intrigued me So I opened this email alert and it said I needed to download something to view it (it said it was a video). Well dumb me clicked on a couple things to run something (I'm pretty computer illiterate sometimes) and now it seems that my laptop has some weird trojan crap going on. It started having all these pop-ups to fix it, but I think that is part of what got into my computer. I don't know if these are legit spyware "fixers" for lack of a better word.
I'm sorry if I am not making sense, but if anyone happened to have the same thing occur, I'd love to know. NOw I'm using my desktop and may try to contact some computer-literate people tomorrow to see how I can the things off my laptop since I don't even know what a "safe" way to do this is. I was all set to send out my email newsletter, but I'm even afraid to do it on my desktop incase something is all messed up.
Sorry for rambling, I'm just so confused and now I'm mad at myself for clicking on these things because it was something about Paige. Thanks for reading!