Pop-up suggesting download of repair tool

[choro]

Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

 

[Paul in Houston TX]

Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

That's not good. Have you run a rootkit finder like
tddskiller or rootkitrevealer ?

 

[VanguardLH]

Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Drum roll. And the web browser in question is ...?

What happens when you load the unidentified web browser in its safe
mode and retest going to some "Google" page?

When you exit your web browser, is it really completely unloaded?
Exit your web browser and look in Task Manager to check that there are
no remaining processes still loaded for that web browser.

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Google is a company, not a web page. So exactly WHERE were you (what
URL) when you saw the popup? google.com, gmail.com, voice.google.com,
froogle.com (shopping.google.com), or somewhere else? Google owns
(well, leases) hundreds of domains.

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Is that a popup inside your web browser or in a separate window? If
outside the web browser, you can use SysInternals' Process Explorer to
find out what process owns that window. In PE, click on the web icon
toolbar button and then on the window in question. PE will highlight
which process owns that window.

When you see that popup, was the unidentified URL to "Google" the
first one visited when you loaded the unidentified web browser? Or
had you been web browsing across many sites for awhile and then this
happened?

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

Lots of sources. It's rogueware (sometimes ransomware).

Whose DNS server are you using? No, don't go by what it should be but
go look in the TCP/IP properties since DNS switchers/malware could
have you retrieving A records from a malicious or hacked DNS server.

 

[Metspitzer]

Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

I used a system restore when it happened to me.

 

[Paul]

Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

http://0-productforums.google.com.library.ccbcmd.edu/forum/#!topic/chrome/tr0bwDtHW0U[26-50-false]

C:\users\(computer's name)\AppData\Roaming\DSite\UpdateTask.exe

Mipony download manager (PUA)
Related to Chrome somehow ?

Mipony is probably just the "transport", and someone paid them
to put up that message, and get you to download more crap.

Paul

 

[Mitch Bujard]

Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

This is typical twist-you-arm peddling for yet another "remedy" which
will do things in your PC without asking. No good

If you are using Chrome, you may want to install the adBlock extension
to kill this filthy ad.

Mitch
http://FontMenu.com

 

[choro]

Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

Thanks to all those who responded. *This thing kept popping up as a new
page in Google Chrome rather than as a normal popup* and it was obvious
that it was a scam. So every time I f'x'ed it off. I've tried one or two
of the suggested remedies but will have to wait and see whether it has
been disabled as it popped up haphazardly mostly I believe while
watching YouTube videos.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Thanks to all those who responded. *This thing kept popping up as a new
page in Google Chrome rather than as a normal popup* and it was obvious
that it was a scam. So every time I f'x'ed it off. I've tried one or two
of the suggested remedies but will have to wait and see whether it has
been disabled as it popped up haphazardly mostly I believe while
watching YouTube videos.

Did anyone mention scanning with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and with
Super AntiSpyware?

Both are freeware[1] and find some malware...

[1] Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has a paid version as well.

 

[Jim]

Thanks to all those who responded. *This thing kept popping up as a new
page in Google Chrome rather than as a normal popup* and it was obvious
that it was a scam. So every time I f'x'ed it off. I've tried one or two
of the suggested remedies but will have to wait and see whether it has
been disabled as it popped up haphazardly mostly I believe while
watching YouTube videos.

Did anyone mention scanning with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and with
Super AntiSpyware?

Both are freeware[1] and find some malware...

[1] Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has a paid version as well.

Try AdwCleaner and/or Hitman pro.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

On 21/07/2013 01:45, choro wrote:
Windows 7 fully updated
Kaspersky Internet Security PLUS Malwarebytes

Recently I have been getting a new page in RED popping up while I am on
Google which says...

Microsoft Certified Partner
Your PC's Performance is Poor
Fix Windows errors Immediately
Download Repair Tool

Any ideas as to which company is behind this SCAM and how I can
eliminate these pop-ups?

Thanks to all those who responded. *This thing kept popping up as a new
page in Google Chrome rather than as a normal popup* and it was obvious
that it was a scam. So every time I f'x'ed it off. I've tried one or two
of the suggested remedies but will have to wait and see whether it has
been disabled as it popped up haphazardly mostly I believe while
watching YouTube videos.

Did anyone mention scanning with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and with
Super AntiSpyware?

Both are freeware[1] and find some malware...

[1] Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has a paid version as well.

Try AdwCleaner and/or Hitman pro.

Thanks, now bookmarked here.

 

[Iceman]

[21 quoted lines suppressed]

Did anyone mention scanning with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and with
Super AntiSpyware?

Both are freeware[1] and find some malware...

[1] Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has a paid version as well.

I haven't used the paid version, but the freeware version of MVB was pretty
clunky (on XP) -- slow and wouldn't update properly.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

[21 quoted lines suppressed]

Did anyone mention scanning with Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and with
Super AntiSpyware?

Both are freeware[1] and find some malware...

[1] Malwarebytes Anti-Malware has a paid version as well.

I haven't used the paid version, but the freeware version of MVB was pretty
clunky (on XP) -- slow and wouldn't update properly.

1. I don't know what MVB is. Oh never mind, I'm being dumb. It's a typo
for MWB, yes?

2. I misspoke. I meant Super AntiSpyware has a paid version. However, I
looked: MWB does have a paid version, so never mind

 

[Iceman]

X-No-Archive: Yes

1. I don't know what MVB is. Oh never mind, I'm being dumb. It's a typo
for MWB, yes?

Yep, I meant MWB (Malwarebytes). We both shouldn't let our fingers race
ahead of our minds, Gene.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

X-No-Archive: Yes



Yep, I meant MWB (Malwarebytes). We both shouldn't let our fingers race
ahead of our minds, Gene.

I don't know if I can slow down my fingers *that* much

 

[Juan Wei]

Iceman has written on 7/24/2013 4:07 PM:

X-No-Archive: Yes



Yep, I meant MWB (Malwarebytes).

They call it MBAM.

 

[Ken Blake]

1. I don't know what MVB is. Oh never mind, I'm being dumb. It's a typo
for MWB, yes?

Malvare Bytes?

Reminds me for some reason of the story about the two men who get off
the ship that just docked in Honolulu and rush up to the first person
they see on the dock and ask "We have a bet. Is it pronounced 'Hawaii'
or 'Havaii' "

"Havaii!"

"Ahh. Thanks very much" "

"You're velcome."

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Malvare Bytes?

Reminds me for some reason of the story about the two men who get off
the ship that just docked in Honolulu and rush up to the first person
they see on the dock and ask "We have a bet. Is it pronounced 'Hawaii'
or 'Havaii' "

"Havaii!"

"Ahh. Thanks very much" "

"You're velcome."

That's a wery funny joke. (Granted it's not wery new, but you can't haff
ewerything.)

I haff to say I like MalvareBytes as an explanation

OT:
One of the classical music disk jockeys around here often plays pieces
by someone he calls Carl Maria Won Veber (I'm using the German way to
spell what he says).

Come to think of it, there's a nearby college that has a problem with
what almost every local news person calls 'accredidation'.

I am way too picky to take this stuff well

 

[Bob Henson]

That's a wery funny joke. (Granted it's not wery new, but you can't haff
ewerything.)

I haff to say I like MalvareBytes as an explanation

OT:
One of the classical music disk jockeys around here often plays pieces
by someone he calls Carl Maria Won Veber (I'm using the German way to
spell what he says).

Come to think of it, there's a nearby college that has a problem with
what almost every local news person calls 'accredidation'.

I am way too picky to take this stuff well

Likewise. As a practising pedant, may I chip in with "vunnerable"
(vulnerable) and "speeshees" (species) as my two particular bêtes noires of
the moment - even the BBC newsreaders cannot pronounce them correctly.

--
Bob
Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England

Behind every successful man is a woman - that's because he keeps his wallet
in his back pocket!

 

[Juan Wei]

Gene E. Bloch has written on 7/24/2013 8:46 PM:

OT:
One of the classical music disk jockeys around here often plays pieces
by someone he calls Carl Maria Won Veber (I'm using the German way to
spell what he says).

"Fon Veber", please!

 

[Ken Blake]

Likewise. As a practising pedant, may I chip in with "vunnerable"
(vulnerable)

Ugh! I agree with you.

and "speeshees" (species) as my two particular bêtes noires of
the moment

But how do you want to pronounce it? "Spee-seez"?

As far as I'm concerned, that's wrong, and the proper pronunciation
*is* "spee-shees." And by the way, all my American dictionaries *and*
the OED agree with me.