Have you been approached?
Oct 14th 2009 | 7:11 pm
#1
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From: Beckenham, London borough Bromley
Have you been approached?
Hi
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
Oct 14th 2009 | 7:14 pm
#2
¿Dónde estoy?
Joined: Jun 2004
Posts: 13,330
From: my paradise - Jávea
Re: Have you been approached?
Hi
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
Oct 14th 2009 | 7:43 pm
#3
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From: conil de la frontera
Re: Have you been approached?
No message on my visit to xpats and I live in the Cadiz region as well
Oct 14th 2009 | 8:41 pm
#4
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Posts: 474
Re: Have you been approached?
Hi
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
DSB.
Oct 14th 2009 | 8:45 pm
#5
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Re: Have you been approached?
You might want to run Malwarebytes and Avira in safe mode. They are free programs 
Oct 14th 2009 | 9:16 pm
#7
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Joined: Sep 2007
Posts: 5,211
From: Ontinyent - Valencia region (campo)
Re: Have you been approached?
Hi
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
Oct 14th 2009 | 9:48 pm
#8
Happy in my bubble
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 4,538
From: Rochdale LANCASHIRE
Re: Have you been approached?
Hi
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
A number of people in my area (Cadiz) have had an email asking about the area; the mailer purports to have relatives in this area.
Coupled to this, when logging into British Expats forum, the antivirus program AVG comes up with the following message
The page you are trying to access has been identified as a known exploit, phishing, or social engineering web site and therefore has been blocked for your safety. Without protection, such as that in the AVG Security Toolbar and AVG, your computer is at risk of being compromised, corrupted or having your identity stolen. Please follow one of the suggestions below to continue.
anyone else had problems??
Davexf
Yes JJH off here has has the same message - pm her as she was worried about it too
Oct 15th 2009 | 7:12 am
#9
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 10,759
From: Land of no recession
Re: Have you been approached?
I was one of the people receiving this message earlier today.
I tried reinstalling AVG to no avail
Reinstalled firefox again no difference
Reported the problem to AVG a few hours ago
As you can see I have now successfully logged in
I tried reinstalling AVG to no avail
Reinstalled firefox again no difference
Reported the problem to AVG a few hours ago
As you can see I have now successfully logged in
