K. P. Harrier ricktrains4824 (12-21): Thanks for your thoughts. I tried my antivirus program, but it NOW does not work. That seems to suggest, according to your thoughts, a worm is on the computer. The warning message last night said the file at trains.com had a “.tv” extension, if that means anything to anybody. Best, K.P.
ricktrains4824 (12-21):
Thanks for your thoughts.
I tried my antivirus program, but it NOW does not work. That seems to suggest, according to your thoughts, a worm is on the computer.
The warning message last night said the file at trains.com had a “.tv” extension, if that means anything to anybody.
Best,
K.P.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The domain name .tv is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Tuvalu.
Except for reserved names like com.tv, net.tv, org.tv and others, any person may register second-level domains in TV. The domain name is popular, and thus economically valuable, because it is an abbreviation of the wordtelevision.
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I had problems with this until I installed Adblock. Unfortunately this site has malicious ads but Adblock ends the redirects and error messages.
Every country has a different URL extension that identifies the country (this was invented AFTER the .com, .net, .edu, .gov. etc stuff was already in use). The ".tv" is a small island in the South Pacific and because the letters are also the abreviation for TeleVision, the biggest boon to their ecconomy is renting out URL's using their country designation. They don't control what web sites do with the extension but lots of advertisers like to use it to coinside with their Television advertisements.
I suspect that you got into something when your antimalware program was off-line and you may have a problem getting the malware out of your computer. There are ways for the computer illiterate to do so, but "we" often need more professional help in doing so. There are web sites you can go to that will run malware sweeps of your computer that might help and you can buy antimalware programs that come on USB dongles that you boot your computer to that can then run "outside" of your normal operating system to look for the bad programs so they can't interfer with the sweeps. But this forum is a poor place to try to talk someone through it. I'd suggest you find a guru in your area (professional or friend, or that teenager down the street) that can help you see if your computer has a problem.
Semper Vaporo
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The ".tv" doesn't mean much to me, but May to those "in the know".
And, the fact that your anti virus is now not working, does show that "restore" did not work. Worm or virus is indeed in play on your system....
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I've not had that issue, or any issue on this website....
But, I always have my antivirus active.
EDIT: And, if "restore" to prior date indeed worked, not an extortion worm.... They prevent "restore" from working....
Sounds like one of the extortion worms. Nasty stuff. Nothing to do with the Trains website, AFAIK.
Most likely it's the Kalmbach marketing cookies it does not like.
I don't know what is infecting your computer, but I don't see any indication that you got it here. Mine doesn't do any of that stuff.
Dave
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As some of you may know, my computer is protected with DeepFreeze. But, I inadvertently had it off and visited the trainsmag.com website. All types of things started happening with my computer! The last straw was a RED screen that identified the TRAINS and a related website as dangerous and it was being reported to Microsoft!
Unless this website is deliberately spreading computer viruses Kalmbach may want to shut it down and clean house, making sure it is not wrecking people’s computers before proceeding further.
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How I restored my computer … Windows 7 has a restoring the computer to an earlier point in time function. Using that seemed to eliminate the problems (sort of). Then DeepFreeze was reactivated.
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