Fake Zeus Virus Detected Popup Warning
I've seen a few times where an Internet page popup displays a bogus warning about the Zeus Virus being detected. The last one had a support number to sucker you into calling (888)289-9990.
In researching this I am very unclear as to if any sort of infection actually exists or if this is just all tricky web popups.
When I've seen these popups before I just End Task them. Every time I've run Malwarebytes or another scanner afterwards, it has come up clean.
But googling the net shows people running adware remover, malwarebytes as well disabling and removing certain unspecified browser plugins/extensions/add-ons
When I see one of these fake zeus popups, does it ever indicate my system is infected, not with Zeus but with the Fake Zeus Detector popup?
What's the real deal here? Should I just close the popup, or should I take more serious measures?
In researching this I am very unclear as to if any sort of infection actually exists or if this is just all tricky web popups.
When I've seen these popups before I just End Task them. Every time I've run Malwarebytes or another scanner afterwards, it has come up clean.
But googling the net shows people running adware remover, malwarebytes as well disabling and removing certain unspecified browser plugins/extensions/add-ons
When I see one of these fake zeus popups, does it ever indicate my system is infected, not with Zeus but with the Fake Zeus Detector popup?
What's the real deal here? Should I just close the popup, or should I take more serious measures?
In this type of situation the scammer is doing like you mentioned they want you to call the number so they can remote control your computer and charge you for the service. You might want to take a snap shot of your startup programs and post it. You can do this by right clicking on your task bar and going to Task Manger then go to the Startup tab and use the snipping tool (built into windows and post the results). Because it shouldn't keep popping up after you ran malwarebytes etc.,. It is also quite possible that this fake detector is only coming up when you visit a certain web page (usually Java based or Flash).
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ITSysTech - it doesn't popup all the time on a given machine, in fact fairly rare. At the moment I don't have access to the machine I've most recently seen this on. These Fake Zeus Popup variations have been around a log time. Again, are they indicative of a real adware infection that generates the Fake Zeus Popup, or is the Popup fairly toothless if you don't call the fake support phone number?
It would be important to find out why and when it is popping up. Mainly because some users do call this number and find themselves giving their credit card to the tech scammers. Next time it happens I would note the programs running (word, fire fox etc,.) and the webpage being visited if there is one and get back to us.
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Not really wanting to go that route as this is on a few different machines that I've seen it on, and not just my own, and harder to track
Was more looking for someone who may have dealt with these fake Zeus infection popups:
In general when I see one of these fake zeus popups, does it ever indicate my system is infected, not with Zeus but with adware that presents the Fake Zeus Detector popup?
Or is the popup purely generated from a malicious web advertisement that is simply popping up the Fake Zeus Detector without actually infecting my computer?
Not really wanting to go that route as this is on a few different machines that I've seen it on, and not just my own, and harder to track
Was more looking for someone who may have dealt with these fake Zeus infection popups:
In general when I see one of these fake zeus popups, does it ever indicate my system is infected, not with Zeus but with adware that presents the Fake Zeus Detector popup?
Or is the popup purely generated from a malicious web advertisement that is simply popping up the Fake Zeus Detector without actually infecting my computer?
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