was my computer hacked?

My dad has Windows XP and the very same thing happened to him, even the same numbers. He's been ignoring the popups and we're checking on it tomorrow. I'll let you know if we figure out anything.

If you're still self-diagnosing, I would check for strange apps in your Task Manager and in Add/Remove Programs in your Control Panel, as well as odd sites in your browser history, as well as running a complete scan with your current security software.

Back up all your personal files -- photos, music, things you've written, etc. Print out (or at least export and save) any contact lists you have saved online. To me, losing that data is more frightening than identity theft. When my Yahoo! Mail was cracked a few years ago, the criminals threw my whole address book in the trash after they spammed my friends. (Luckily, I was able to restore it.)

I would say change your passwords, but if you can't confirm that your computer is clean before you do that, the new ones won't necessarily be safe. But most of my advice is aimed toward avoiding the worst that it could possibly be -- and it probably isn't that bad.

April 18 update -- I think at least some of the sites that generated that script have cleaned it up. Doesn't seem to be anything wrong. This is a good reminder to Alt-F4 out of any unfamiliar window or box and not click ANYWHERE in it, though.

Do a virus scan, if you don't have any, i think theirs this really good and trust able anti virus called malware bytes anti-malware, or something by that name, try and google it. If the scan comes out as nothing wrong with it There is 2 possible answers.

Either,

1. This is a very newly developed virus and its a very serious one (Theres like a 1% of this being likely)

2. theres just something wrong with you computer, If you live in the UK (I dont know if this is in the USA, but theres probably a place just like it) theres this place called PC World, and they have this thing called the "Tech guys", and they can have a major look at your computer.

Goodluck.

the same thing happened to me at home last night, and at my work pc just now. both times i was visiting yahoo fantasy sports using mozilla firefox. at first, i thought my home pc might have had a virus, but now i don't think it's a virus because my work pc is almost brand new and i rarely use it for non-work stuff. my guess now is it's some code hidden in a web advertisement that went unnoticed.

edit: just happened again. the ad at the time was for 'Fusion ProGlide', if it happens again i'll check to see if it's the same ad.

hacking... human beings out interior the international prefer to interrupt into deepest centers like as quickly as this guy broke into the U. S. military employer stuff to no longer screw it up yet just to tutor he can, ordinarily hacking is breaking into yet another persons pc without being one hundred's or perhaps hundreds miles far off from it and programming viruses or something like dat.

Just happened to me too, on a mac! These things don't get viruses?! I was also on a Yahoo page (not fantasy)

You just answered my question about the same thing. If you would like to talk about it email me at vipera0912@yahoo.com.