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foxglove

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Hello I am running OS X10.4.11 on my 800 Mhz PowerPC G4 iMac.
I have had a dialog box pop up whenever I open safari or firefox after starting my computer. It may also appear if I quit the browsers and reopen them but not always. Also once I close the box I usually do not see again until re starting or reopening.
I believe that it some kind of bug that is causing the browser to run slow at downloading letting pop up ads come up even though I have the block up for pop ups and it is possible that it is redirecting my browsers to other sites. I am unsure as this usually happens when I am searching on google.
This what is in the dialog box


Windows Internet Security
Your browser is under threat of infection Windows requires your permission to install online protection tool
Name: online protection tool
Publisher Microsoft windows

I have done a little online research and have tried force quitting the browsers to kill it and downloaded a free trial of MacScan which took several hours to run and told me it found tracking cookies and spyware.
I followed the instructions to isolate and remove them which left a folder on my desktop titled isolated items which I then threw into the trash and secured empty trash on it for good measure.
No luck.

Any help or direction would be most appreciated

Thanks
Foxglove
 
foxglove said:
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Windows Internet Security
Your browser is under threat of infection Windows requires your permission to install online protection tool
Name: online protection tool
Publisher Microsoft windows

I have done a little online research and have tried force quitting the browsers to kill it and downloaded a free trial of MacScan which took several hours to run and told me it found tracking cookies and spyware.
I followed the instructions to isolate and remove them which left a folder on my desktop titled isolated items which I then threw into the trash and secured empty trash on it for good measure.
No luck.

Any help or direction would be most appreciated

Thanks
Foxglove
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OK. You have a PPC-based Mac. Windows Internet Security cannot run on your computer. It is not installed.

What you have is a boneheaded social engineering trap intended to trick Windows users into installing malware on their systems. Even if a Mac user were dumb enough to click through, no harm would be done to the Macintosh.

Smile. Move on. Be happy you use a Mac.
 
Thanks for your reply MisterMe.

I know that the acursed windows will not run on my Mac. but I do find the window annoying as I do believe that it is hiding somewhere on my computer and would like to be rid of it.

By the way I am a 20 year Mac user I would never have anything else.
 
Ensure that you haven't been scammed by the DNSChanger trojan, either:

http://www.dnschanger.com/

You would have had to explicitly and specifically given permission for this to install on your machine (so don't think that you have been somehow "infected" with anything), but it used social engineering tricks to get you to let it install -- typically, by visiting a malicious website that asked you to install additional Quicktime codecs to properly view the content of the site.
 
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