Something Wrong

There is something amiss Woo.....my smilies aren't working and it does seem tempermental....

 

I've got my popup blocker set to allow GardenersCorner to do anything (I've marked it as a trusted site), but I've not had any such popups.

 

@wiseowl read this http://www.enigmasoftware.com/annualvisitorsurveypopups-removal/

But is their removal tool a virus???? (and there's free software at malwarebytes/beeping computer [1] that should do the job)

So it definitely sounds like ad/spyware. If you Google
you have been personally selected for today's annual anonymous survey all sorts of references to it are found


[1] That's been mentioned on this forum in the past to deal with nasty Security Shield Bugs.

 

A guess (because it's free removal if correct). Something called Yontoo can cause pop ups like this

http://www.microsoft.com/security/p...dia/Entry.aspx?Name=Adware:Win32/Yontoo#tab_2




Somebody using Firefox described how they got rid of it here http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/958835

Fingers crossed ....

 

I wonder if Google and Mozilla etc have released an emergency patch for their respective browsers, or if this infection gets in via a trojan. Trick the user into downloading and installing something that seems legit and useful, but which actually lets the malware have unrestricted access to your PC.