• Print This

Does Serious eats have a virus?

Twice this afternoon while I've been on serious eats (but not on other sites) I've had my screen on firefox suddenly flash a big warning, show what seems to be a picture of "my computer" screen, and tell my I've got viruses in my documents, my hard drive, my shared documents etc, and invite me to download a program to fix it. Almost did, but my good computer doc told me never to download an exe file that I didn't recognize. I had trouble getting out of the screen. Ran my antivirus, AVG, and only cookies turned up, no viruses. I'm thinking if I downloaded this program I would have had trouble.

Anybody else have this happen?

Comments:

Add a comment:

Comments can take up to a minute to appear - please be patient!

Previewing your comment:

 

HTML Hints

Some HTML is OK: <a href="URL">link</a>, <strong>strong</strong>, <em>em</em>

Comment Guidelines

Post whatever you want, just keep it seriously about eats, seriously. We reserve the right to delete off-topic or inflammatory comments. Learn more at our Comment Policy page.

If you see something not so nice, please, report an inappropriate comment.

Start Talking!

Need a question answered? Have advice to share? Start a Talk topic now!

Sign up to start a talk topic

Sign up to get your questions answered and share advice.