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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 1:12pm \| IP Logged \| 1

Three times today I have attempted to access this website only to be bombarded by a cascade of bogus warnings that my "Android" computer has been infected with a virus, and I must call a provided number immediately or my computer will be "locked".

This is in multiple layers, the first one warning I have caught 4 viruses, the second 3, the third 2 -- but no end in sight. I have to quit the internet to escape.

No other sites I visit are presenting this problem. Anybody else seeing it?

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Shaun Barry
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 1:29pm \| IP Logged \| 2

Nothing here so far, for me. Definitely get that checked-out ASAP.

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Bill Lancellotta
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 1:40pm \| IP Logged \| 3

No problem on my end. I don't think it's the website.

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Matt Hawes
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 2:01pm \| IP Logged \| 4

I haven't had any issues, either.

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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 3:47pm \| IP Logged \| 5

I just checked using Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari. There are no problems
here, sir.

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Brian Miller
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 3:48pm \| IP Logged \| 6

None from casa de Miller.

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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 4:08pm \| IP Logged \| 7

Crazy! Cuz there's nothin wrong with my non-Android computer!

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John Byrne
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 4:11pm \| IP Logged \| 8

Just tried again, and this time got a torrent of "congratulations" from the likes of Amazon and Wal-Mart telling me I've won $100 gift cards

Sure.

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Peter Martin
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 4:38pm \| IP Logged \| 9

No problems for me visiting the site either on my desktop PC (using windows) nor on my android phone nor on my android tablet. Nasty cookie/soft virus?

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Matthew Chartrand
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 5:05pm \| IP Logged \| 10

Try running Malwarebytes Anti-malware program. Usually works on stuff like this.

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Brad Brickley
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 6:23pm \| IP Logged \| 11

It was fine when I checked just now. Lots of ads on the page, but no pop-ups.

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James Woodcock
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Posted: 19 May 2017 at 11:17pm \| IP Logged \| 12

I have, on occasion, had a 'congratulations you have won an iphone' message appear on my iPhone. Usually when it happens it becomes associated with a specific website.

It seemed to be that that website was allowing unscrupulous people to send push notes to my phone . On a whim one day I resPended and a few days later someone phoned my iPhone wanting all my details so I gave them false ones purely as an exercise.

At the end, they said I had been entered into a lottery syndicate that had a monthly subscription and so they would need my bank details.

Yeah, so they would have my name, address, DOB and then my bank details. How stupid did they think I was?

What they had was complete false info. I hung up and tried to dial the number they had dialled from - didn't exist. The pop up messages stopped and I reset my iPhone

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