Virus

[Tommer]

Here's something interesting.

Today whilst I was browsing the internet, my web page was hijacked. It changed page on it's own (not opened a new tab) to what on first appearance looked like the Adobe Flash Update website.

Without even clicking the download button, this window pops up, prompting me to save the file.

On closer inspection, you can see that in the navigation bar, the URL is not that of the Adobe Website, it's an IP address which means it could pretty much be any computer in the world. Perhaps more interestingly where I'm being sent the file from is also an IP, fom a different address.

Now, look even closer, "Your System: Windows , Chrome" not only is that extremely unspecific, but I am using Firefox, and don't have Chrome installed.

I don't believe for one second that this site is legitimate. But I wonder how my page got hijacked like this? does that mean there could be something malicious already on my machine? I have avast generally permanently on and there doesn't -appear- to be any suspiscious looking programs in the task manager..

Has anyone also had this? and if it is a virus on the PC side and not an infected website, do they know how to get rid of? Cheers