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Outdated Java notification?
cooler
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I was browsing the net in Chrome then I got automatically redirected to the url below which says that the Java version is outdated. Then it started downloading a setup.exe file. Is this some sort of fake/rouge software?
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Any page that automatically redirects you to an .exe is either a malware site or very badly designed.
I only posted this thread earlier today, how has it got over 2000 views already?
Yes that is a bit odd especially as inspector drake's post with the words 'fake' and 'Java' in the title having far fewer views.
Is it the number of views by logged in DS members or the number viewed on the web, if the latter it would explain ... lots of people Googling with the same problem.
Views by anyone regardless of logged in status, including guests and visits from searches.
Thanks for the answer, that certainly explains why there are so many views, lots of people getting this problem and DS near the top for Google results ..... nice to see
Edit: years ago I had a problem and Googled, the best answers seemed to be on the DS computer forum so I joined (2005) and since have had a fair few problems fixed with help from the members.
I have been able to help a few too, not too many
IIRC Firefox disables them already, but allows you to use them if you (the user) override the setting, and I'm sure plenty do in ignorance when they're being click-happy.
It's so annoying. How have the Internet police not shut down that site yet? Is this only a problem with Google Chrome? I might try Internet Explorer or Firefox and see if those let me browse the Interent happily without shutting down the page and downloading a virus every few minutes... :rolleyes:
There was a similar thing happening to me a few months back, except with a different site that kept popping up, but that automatically downloaded a harmful file too. It just disappeared eventually, but if a new site is always going to keep replacing it then what's the point?
http://malwaretips.com/blogs/updatesjava-com-removal/
Pretty much all of them involve going into Control Panel and looking through the list of installed programs for a certain range of names. Remove those then reset the browsers to get rid of the add-on the virus inserts.
Then a scan with your AV and something like Malwarebytes to check nothing is left behind.
It seems this infection might get in via an installer for some other program you download. It relies on the fact that a lot of people just blindly click Next in the install screens without bothering to read what it is they are agreeing to install alongside the wanted program.