Can anyone advise on the harm of this malware?
Yesterday googled "George Stephenson £5 Note" to get information about the previous UK banknote that has not been legal tender since 2003. The sixth website in the search results is some sort of malware that starts warning you your computer is infected and appears to start scanning your hard drive. Annoying enough - but it also starts putting files into the download list.
I was concerned this may be spyware and eventually have downloaded for use the 30 day trial of macscan. This has found nothing - but takes hours to do. Even though I still have the last one of these downloads in trash, so maybe it is not Trojan Spyware.
I have sent a message to goggle about this malware site and tried to find anyone else to report this to but have failed to find anyone who will investigate.
So I attach the link to the website below in the hope that someone is expert enough to cope with this and tell me what it is. PLEAE DO NOT USE THIS LINK UNTIL SOMEONE COMPETENT HAS ADVISED ON HOW HARMFUL IT IS - IT IMMEDIATELY STARTS DOWNLOADING FILES TO YOUR MACHINE: -
www.fashmedia.co.uk/clients2/george-stephenson-5-pound-note
You need to get that junk off your computer, if you accepted the download and install. Apple has information and instructions for removal:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4650
For additional information, see also:
http://www.reedcorner.net/news.php/?p=138
http://www.reedcorner.net/guides/macvirus/
It doesn't matter where you are located, by the way; that's not relevant to the issue, and your firewall won't help in this circumstance if you approve the download and install yourself, though you may be tricked into doing so.
If the message is just popping up when you web surf and you aren't allowing a download and install, then you are just encountering a hacked web site (which may not be the one to which you post the URL; it doesn't when I go there) that has the ad for that fakeware.
Regards.
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