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This is my first post here - I joined a few days ago after the first occurrence. A random audio ad for Gaviscon started playing - I had a few pages open in Google Chrome at the time so I thought it was one of those annoying auto play ads, but I scanned each page and found nothing.
I joined this forum whilst running a virus scan with Sophos, just in case it couldn't find anything, but it did - it found several threats in my Java cache. Just to be safe I deleted the entire cache and thought I was safe.
But a few minutes ago another ad started playing, and then another, I quickly killed Chrome and my MSN client (aMSN) but the ad kept playing.
I'm running another scan now but I would like some advice - has anybody had this problem? If it comes to it I will take it to the Apple Store and have it wiped (but will the virus not just transfer over with my back up?)
Is there anything anybody can recommend I do? I'm running Snow Leopard, if that matters.
Cheers.
I joined this forum whilst running a virus scan with Sophos, just in case it couldn't find anything, but it did - it found several threats in my Java cache. Just to be safe I deleted the entire cache and thought I was safe.
But a few minutes ago another ad started playing, and then another, I quickly killed Chrome and my MSN client (aMSN) but the ad kept playing.
I'm running another scan now but I would like some advice - has anybody had this problem? If it comes to it I will take it to the Apple Store and have it wiped (but will the virus not just transfer over with my back up?)
Is there anything anybody can recommend I do? I'm running Snow Leopard, if that matters.
Cheers.