IE "Your Computer May Be At Risk" popup

Welcome,

There are two possible sources of your problem, the websites. I doubt it because you are getting the same pop up from different sites.

The second is that you have malware. Not a serious problem, if you catch and correct the problem quickly.

Download this Malwarebytes.org

Run a scan with the above as well as an antivirus scan. If you come clean with both, for now we will assume that it is the website.

tony22 said:

Thanks Richard. Would Ad-aware and Spybot also be recommended?

I cannot know the quality of every spyware in use. I can only tell you what I use and which is considered one of the best by this Forum. It would be up to you to make the decision. If you do not want to download Malwarebytes, why not try yours, if it comes up positive take steps to remedy the situation. If it comes up negative and you still have the problem, I would download Malwarebytes and scan. You can just let it stay on your hide drive, hidden, until needed again. I actually have the pay version, which updates and scans automaticaly. It also warns me of sites that have known malware, before it lets me view the page. I like it.

EDIT: I can tell you that your choices do have a good reputation.

tony22 said:

Richard, I've found in the past it usually takes more than one of these tools to trap most of these annoyances. I do plan to use the malwarebytes tool along with these others.

You are 100% correct. If that is your plan, you will find almost anything.

Yes, when I first got Malwarebytes, I had the same warning. That is a false positive. Let me read the posts again and then tell you the next step.

You look like you are OK. I think that the pop ups came from a website. There is malware, written, by people, and they put it on different websites. When I try to help and get computer information for posters, I often get a popup, which is the same on several sites. If you want to avoid having problems. Use Microsoft Security Essentials. It will warn you real time of any Virus or Malware. You will not get them on your system, you delete them before hand. You can, and should use Malwarebytes, too. Make sure it is the free version or there will be a conflict with the malware protection in Security Essentials and Malwarebytes.

My suggestion for the future. You are clean now. Make a system image and put it on an external hard drive. Save it in a safe place. Every month, if you are sure that you are clean and no problems, update the image. This way you ever have a problem in the future, you can always use the saved image to help you.

I just read the posts again. This is important, never hit the right hand corner X to get rid of the pop up. Always use task manager or the free version of Win Patrol, which I really like.