Almost feeling normal now, after coming down with COVID-19, a week ago. Wednesday will run another test kit at day 8 to help confirm, am no longer contagious. Looking forward to next Saturday and in the mean time, will remain at home. But there is more ways viruses are attacking than just our bodies...
This morning after clicking on a Firefox browser news story disguised link, that was instead a malware porn link, my desktop suddenly displayed disgusting malware stating my system was infected, not to shut down, or power off etc. Malware can prevent simply closing such windows say with the top corner X or with the task manager. So NO, within 3 seconds, I did in fact initiate a SHUTDOWN, quickly powering off before whatever might load unknowns in the background, as I've set up with my desktop power up boot button to SHUTDOWN, that is not the default.
After re-booting up, ran McAfee antivirus scans, that were as expected negative, then opened Firefox that of course went to the disgusting page that I immediately changed to
www.yahoo.com. Then went into the Firefox Settings page to Notifications and deleted 5 allowed exception web links that included a TMZ link that was likely the source. Then cleared all browser history and data, most of which is automatically done each time I exit the browser.
All well again. Within the last couple weeks, something similar happened and had done the same thing. Attacks by malware are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and recently the Microsoft Notification functions seem to be a favored entry. Others on the board would be wise to be ready in understanding how back out and cleanly recover from such attacks that will differ depending on browser used.
