[Blessings2You]

Anybody else having problems? I can't access "My eBay", or most other parts of eBay except the home page. It almost opens, then the browser window abruptly closes. Sometimes I get the "report error" message, and sometimes just BING! it's gone.

This just started today. I thought it was just eBay, but it randomly happened with a couple of other sites, such as Google shopping. I can't find anything on the news or Google search except on the eBay discussion boards.

[mrsD]

I just had my Avast block two malwares.

Yesterday I tried viewing a poetry site and some auto download started, and I closed and rebooted---nothing triggered there.

But today I had two events where I clicked on something here, and another website popped up.

I am running malwarebytes now, and it is almost done. So far it is showing one infection!

I think this time of year there are going to be many attacks by spammers!

I use Firefox... but you may want to download free the Malwarebytes and run it. We like it, and it catches alot.

[mrsD]

Malwarebytes just found 8 things, and removed them.

Now I cannot get on the internet at all. I called my son and he said his coworker at the software place he works at had this happen and it was a nightmare to fix.

Be careful...whatever this is is nasty!

I am using a backup laptop to type this to you.

I am running Avast to see what it finds, and then will rerun the Malware program again. But it looks like a nasty thing....and I don't even go many places to get them.

My avast blocked two things today also, one was a forum!

I am so angry....I hate stuff like this.

Jo, if you have any suggestions, we are both waiting for you
here!

[mrsD]

I really don't know how I did it... as I am not a computer person, so I am thinking this is a miracle for us!

I reran both scans, Malware and Avast and they came up zero.
I rebooted again... and then got the Proxy Server error message.

So I went on our backup laptop, and looked up the exact wording of the error message..

There were many sites with suggestions. I had to go thru several to find the real fix.

1) first try, internet options at the top of the page of your brower,
For Mozilla it was Tools>options>advanced>network>settings
uncheck the proxy box. Well this was already blank for us.
so that didn't work

2) second try:
Control panel>internet options>connections>LAN settings.
all boxes should be unchecked and empty.... and there IT was
checked--the proxy permission box
The helper on the site said with certain types of infection the malware checks that box so you cannot get back on the net!

Boy they are malicious!

This all just happened in the past 24 hrs here. There must be a ton of new stuff for Xmas going around!

I hope this helps someone!

[Blessings2You]

Oh dear, I'll have to read this again tomorrow when my brain is semi-functional. I downloaded and ran the Malwarebytes, it found two infected something and got rid of them. I still can't get into My eBay, but maybe I can figure it out tomorrow.

I asked my techie son if he thought it originated from ebay, and he said that his guess was that it manifested itself there, but didn't know where it originated. I thought my Norton was supposed to fend off those bad dudes.

[mrsD]

Well, Malware had 8 things on it. And I only had 2 hits on Avast today.

What was happening is that one of the infections was hijacking my clicking on things. I got hijacked from here even twice!

We run 4 things every weekend. Adaware, Malwarebytes, spybot and Avast. And we never find anything! This weekend we were clean, and during the last 24 hrs I picked up a boatload!

I have noticed that Ebay does stall out sometimes, but I have never had what you are describing.

Anyway bookmark this fix... it seems very important to me...that you could fix an intrusion, and be left with something that blocks your ability to get back on the internet!

When I log off tonight we are doing the Maleware scan of the backup.
Just to make sure.