Chrome and the "Norton" pop - up

[VisciousFishes]

Recently I have been getting a phishing pop-up telling me to renew my Norton due to it expiring.

I never use Symantec Norton because I have had issues with it in the past. (Norton is a Virus in my experience).

I closed all my open Chrome tabs, except for one site - Presonus.com - and having run AVG to test for viruses I am getting nothing detected.

I am not sure if this thread is more "PSA" or a request for help. So, yeah, anything that you can suggest may help. Else, it's a heads-up to everyone else about there being a phishing scam around.

As I don't use Norton I have not clicked the link. There is however a link in the description when it pops up in my Win 10 notifications, which isn't a Norton site. I shall update this with the nefarious link once I get the pop-up again. (Obviously I am not going to post the proper URL as I don't want anyone else getting a virus.

AVG states that I have a clean system, even after a deep scan.

EDIT - The chrome pop up has asked me to update chrome now. The url below is the "instigator" and asking me to renew norton or, now, update Chrome.

makesomethird3.c.o.m.

[VisciousFishes]

引用自 Omega：

Reset the BIOS to default. Hyper threading has nothing to do with this.

I couldn't agree more. Especially as that is exactly what two articles said when I googled it an hour ago.

The only two settings changed was VDT and Boot order. Neither should be the issue, I believe.

Thanks for your help. I will be back on it in a few days. Seasons Greetings!

[VisciousFishes]

UPDATE

Well, it's not been without its troubles and after spending the best part of an afternoon fighting the computer to get Windows installed to my NVME ssd, I am finally up and running.

Thankfully, I had a dvd with an install for windows. At this point, it seems that update 1909 could be the root of my issues. Windows wants me to install it yet, it was a little after that update that my computer went squiffy.

My backup was an absolute bust. I believed it was a full system image available, but I think it was only an incremental backup available, so no full image, back to square one.

Thankfully, due to an almost obsessive method of storing my files, I haven't lost as much as I could have done. One or two files, a bunch of games but nothing catastrophic. (The hundreds of hours of rehearsals I still need to watch, are still there, for example.) I sacked off the games, it was no accident or fault. I hadn't reinstalled steam so the games were no loss.

Many thanks for everyone's help.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Even legit websites can have bs ads/popups.
Use a different browser if it comes down to it

[VisciousFishes]

引用自 ☥ - CJ -：

Even legit websites can have bs ads/popups.
Use a different browser if it comes down to it

Cheers CJ. I am already looking for alternatives to Chrome. Due to a few articles I have read recently. Between that and reported Dropbox zero-day vulnerability, I am being very careful about third party softwares. I will probably go back to Opera or something.

From my understanding, there WAS a vulnerability in Chrome too. I believe the root of that was an article in The Register or TechRadar. Something about getting admin privileges and injecting background executable. This[www.techradar.com] article was the one I read and it made sense.

However, due to this installation of windows, I am avoiding 1909. It was that update that seemed to cause me a number of issues. However, I can't find enough people who have experienced my experience to get a proper beat on whether it was the update (1909). Breaking software, preventing other software from working properly. All seems to stem from either the 1909 update or something that had "snuck in beneath the radar".