Small pop-up in Yahoo mail keeps coming up, says "Message from webpage: hi". Is it malware?

Exactly the same thing happening on my computer today as well .. only on my yahoo mail page. Wasn't there yesterday but its there today. Ran Malware and avast scans with nothing found. I eventually got it fixed though ... signed out of yahoo mail and closed all applications running and the browser (Internet Explorer). Reopened browser, Internet tools, and deleted everything ... cookies, history of websites visited .. everything. Closed browser again and reopened, logged back into yahoo mail, and haven't had another pop up yet .. all appears well.

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I thought rock was dead in the Eighties, I hated Hair Bands and Punk and Disco. The 90s proved me wrong when I heard Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots and Sound Garden. It seems like rock might be dying again now that those bands are gone but it just depends on what you like. It you don't like the new stuff at the time then it will seem like rock is dying. Of course music has to change or we would all be sick of the same old thing. It is harder these days to be a supergroup because nobody can match record sales of the past. People these days just download the music they want. Alot of the time it is just one song and not the whole album. In the 70s I would buy an album not for one song but for all of them. Also for the cover art of the album and what it had to say. Younger people today don't have the feeling of owning an actual physical collection. They just put music into a computer and thats it. Rock will never die because there will always be that young musician out there that is good enough to come up with something new but use the influences of the past to do something like Kurt Cobain did.

Hi all - I'm having the same issue (different number 40066267). No response from Yahoo. Not a virus. I've had my operating system removed and reinstalled. As soon as I went to use Yahoo messenger and Yahoo mail, the pop-ups started again.

We've had it for a few weeks, and tried to ignore it, but yesterday it started coming up every 10 seconds. I yahoo searched "message from webpage" "yahoo mail" and found this forum. I did what emed32 said to do, and SO FAR it's working. Thanks!!

I have the same problem. It started two days ago. It happens on two different computers, using both Firefox and ie 8 browers. I've contacted Yahoo tech support and as usual haven't received a reply. I ran norton and adaware and they haven't detected any malware.

This just started happening to me! At first it was only on the Yahoo mail page, but now its on any yahoo page!!! Maps, mail, news, all of it. Its extremely annoying. None of my virus/malware scans come up with anything.

I am also having the same problem when using Internet Explorer. I have run a virus scan and it has not found anything. I am annoyed and a little worried as to what this could possibly be.

I followed emed32's instructions and it's all clear now. Delete your browsing history (click Preserve Favorites Website Data), close Internet Explorer, re-open, good-to-go.

I have the same issue and I have not been able to find anything on it. I've searched for the "hi" and numbers. Same here, Malaware did not detect anything even in safe mode. Hope someone answers. If you get a response that is not posted, please add it here too. Thanks