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Offline franksolich

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what's up with this?
« on: August 14, 2014, 05:42:27 PM »
This is showing up with increasing frequency on conservativecave, no other site.

Do I download, or not?





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Re: what's up with this?
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2014, 05:46:47 PM »
I would not do it.  I recently got a popup and a page opening saying that I needed to upgrade my video player. I wasn't even watching any videos at the time.

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https://www.google.com/search?q=open+software+updater&oq=open+software+updater&aqs=chrome..69i57.5589j0j7&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8

Also, almost all legitimate software on your computer has their own built in update service and won't do it through a pop up notice.
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Re: what's up with this?
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2014, 07:14:33 PM »
NO!  Don't download that shit.

Clear your browser cache.
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Re: what's up with this?
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2014, 07:25:15 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on August 14, 2014, 07:14:33 PM
NO!  Don't download that shit.

Clear your browser cache.

Don't worry.

<<<never downloads anything without okay of experts here.
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Re: what's up with this?
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2014, 07:30:08 PM »
One of the guys at work had a similar thing show up on his computer -- he was trying to update Java.  It ended up putting some sort of trojan on his computer that multiplied every time it was scanned by our antivirus.  I was able to find the infected file and delete it.
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