While using the Microsoft Edge browser today, I typed in 'you' to search for a link to open YouTube. I clicked on the top link and BAM. Up popped an old style screen page, blue background, looked like DOS. Then another white page on top of it stating, "there is a .net frame work file missing due to some harmful virus. Please contact blah blah blah. All the time an obnoxious beeping is going on. I could not shut it off or make it go away. I had to sign off. Logging back on, it's still there. Shutting down and re-booting also did not help. I ran my Kaspersky AV in full scan. It found nothing.

I still have Internet Explorer, so I used that to get here. All seems well. Called Kaspersky techs, they are sending diagnostic tools and will be busy when that comes in my e-mail.

Have any of you guys experienced this? And how did you resolve it?

Update:

Ok... Kaspersky says it is 'adware' and will go away after a while. Went back to check. It did go away. They are sending an 'adware cleaner' to keep this from happening again. It's just an unscrupulous sales method. Nothing really harmful, but can happen again if not swept away.

They said computers would make life easier... sigh

Wow that seems pretty obnoxious. I have not tried edge yet, nor am I inclined to. Chrome & Firefox & Safari do me just fine. In fact, I'd recommend you just use Chrome and get ad blocker extension. Forget MS stuff if you can hah.

Similar thing started using another browser.

Yep. Adblocker plus is your friend.

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I use Torch browser, Startpage search engine, and adblock plus. seems to keep most the stuff to a tolerable minimum.

shinzen wrote:Yep. Adblocker plus is your friend.

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Adblocker is basically the single best thing in the history of things. You owe it to yourself to download it, makes surfing so much better.

Firefox with AdBlock Plus and NoScript add-ons. Also, get a free copy of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and run it weekly or whenever you suspect a problem.

Well, I got the adware cleaner from Kaspersky, ran it, rebooted. All seemed well, but now I can't use the start menu pinned to the taskbar. I searched the net for issues, plenty of them for the same thing. A minor irritant, but I'd like things back the way they were. All this because of some lowlife company trying to scare me into buying their AV crap.

I'll just have to clutter up the task bar with separately pinned programs.

I use ccleaner free once a week, and spybot once a month. Use avast for daily protection