5avscan virus scam? Know anything about it?

Question

So I google well budgeted movies and come across a site (C4tqasac.is-the-boss.com) and I click on it and then it transfers me to some server (looking like my own) that says virus scan blah blah blah, I have 37 trojans here, 52 trojans there (in drives not even in existance on my computer) and says that I need to download the whole anti-virus thingy to purge my computer. Then a little box pops up telling me to download it and I can't cancel out of it though it gives me a button. Eventually I force quite my computer because nothing else works and I refuse to click Okay. This was second time getting this, clicking on the same website (I wanted to make sure it was the site and not my computer) the first time I did click okay. How bad do you think this is for my computer? I deleted all my downloads and then emptyed my trash. I have a macbook but don't know anything about spyware, malware. Does leopard mac have it's own anti-virus scan?

Answer 1

Don't worry too much.

It's a fairly simple, though REALLY annoying, fake-out sight.

make a quick bookmark folder of your currently open tabs.

delete the rouge bookmark from that folder.

Close the web browser.

re-open a NEW web browser(not "restore previous session")

Re-open your tabs.





For good measure, run an anti-virus/spyware/malware check.

This sight can be utterly defeated, by turning off scripting(Active x, and j-script) but that also kills the functionality of many legit websites....



Best, final solution is to add the sight to your blacklist.

If you're using Mozilla, I'd use the ad-block add-on to do the blacklisting, since it works across any OS, unlike windows "hosts" based blacklisting.

Answer 2

Yeah - that wasn't your computer screen; it was a web screen modified to LOOK like your computer screen.



Look closely next time, and don't click on ANYthing that says "free virus scan" "free adware/malware scan"



There is NO such thing as a free online malware/adware scan. You are simply being duped into downloading an exe file which will eventually either install a virus into your machine, or harvest your personal information and send it back to wherever it came from.



The ONLY solution to these simple problems is to use Linux. It's free, available for 90% or more of all currently available systems (including Macs!) and it is virtually virus-free.



I say "virtually" because you can probably install viruses on the emulators for more common OS's.



It's not as hard as it sounds. Go to www.ubuntu.com to find out more.



The common misrepresentations of Linux/unix systems give them a bad rep, but nowadays you can rip/burn music and dvd's, play games, render graphics, make movies, and everything on this operating system, just as well - sometimes better - than Windows or Mac OS.

Answer 3

Well you more then likely are ok, there are some viruses for macs but not nearly as many as windows (currently 1.5 million for windows). Watch for any thing suspicious happening on your computer. (lots of pop ups, cannot connect to certain sites like anti virus sites). I don't own a mac so i am not 100% on how all to address the issue, however if you do see the issues happening, contact me through email or yahoo messenger and if i am not helping paying customers i will try to do some research and give you some ideas of what to do.



http://www.rapidcomputerservicellc.com

Answer 4

Seems to me you got a terrible case of adware.



Mac does not provide an anti-virus software,



I recommend:

iAntiVirus -- http://www.iantivirus.com/download/