Computer help forum: pop up message in yahoo email what is it ? what to do ?

thanks Mark. Yes I have SAS and also AVG. I have always had a pretty "clean" computer. so I just x out of that popup. Maybe I should reject it and be more specific. thanks again.

if you didn't get that message at all.

Can you tell me where and when this message displays? Is it when you log in to Yahoo Mail? If so, does it just appear or does it only appear when you open an email to read it?

Mark

"It would be nice though".... {sigh!}

Mark

Mark,
both times I have experience this it was after I opened an email. It was a regular email I subscribe to. Newsmax specifically. The newsletter has headline links to click on and then takes you to a regular webpage.

Well Newsmax seems OK. My Firefox browser's web security add-on WOT, (Web of Trust), gives me a green light for http://www.newsmax.com/ so it is not a suspicious web site.

And when I visited the web site, I got no pop ups or anything.

Can we go through the steps for when this message appears? Correct anything that I have got wrong.

1] You use Internet Explorer to visit web sites and manage your web-based email at Yahoo Mail.

2] When you sign in to Yahoo Mail in your browser you see a list of unread emails in your Inbox.

3] You see an email from Newsmax which is their periodic newsletter email.

4] When you click that entry in the Inbox the email displays in a window within Yahoo Mail.

5] Then you see this pop up;

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6] Do you see this pop up in Yahoo Mail or do you see it when you click a link in the email and another browser window opens at the Newsmax web site?

7] Does this pop up have any more details on it?

I see from http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120421012227AAIwnjq that a "Resolved" question was asked which is very similar to yours. Resolved because the questioner found some malware on their system.

I know you say you have AVG and SAS but I would ask if you have updated each and run full scans with each recently? If not, could you do that please? Scan with each, one after the other.

Then download and install the other utility I suggested, Malwarebytes Antimalware and run a full scan with that as well.

Mark