antivirus popup

[Tom Strong]

• Short Description: antivirus popup
• Browser: Chrome Version 57.0.2987.133 (64-bit)
• Severity: All accounts
• Description: When I am on the site there is sometimes a popup (it appears about once a month) claiming to be windows defender (its clearly fake) warning me about a trojan virus. I can't close the tab, switch tab or close the window once it pops up. a dialog appears telling me about the "virus" and to phone some windows helpline which is also fake. The only way to fix this is to restart my laptop.
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[Garza]

[member="Tom Strong"], Clean out your cookies, and actually check with your anti-virus protection if you have any viruses.

 

[Tom Strong]

[member="Atheus"]
I did all of the things that you said and it came up again

 

[Kurayami Bloodborn]

[member="Tom Strong"] it sounds like there is a good chance you have a virus or that something in the website code is setting off a false positive. What antivirus do you use?

 

[Tom Strong]

[member="Kurayami Bloodborn"]

AVG