I picked up a virus from amazon.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

I've picked up many things from shopping on amazon but never a virus! I don't know when or where this came from but it showed up on my virus scan today as coming from amazon dot com. Anyone else seen this before?

Snowpuppy · ‎03-09-2010

Do you use any of their cloud services?

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@Snowpuppy wrote:
Do you use any of their cloud services?

No, @Snowpuppy. Just shopping.

Snowpuppy · ‎03-09-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
@Snowpuppy wrote:
Do you use any of their cloud services?

No, @Snowpuppy. Just shopping.

The joy of online shopping!

I just got my AMEX card hacked. I'm sure popular shooping sites are prime targets for lots of malicious activity.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@Snowpuppy,

Oh no, a card hack...that's terrible. I had that happen to me with a scanner that was illegally installed on a cash register at a local store. Everything is okay now but it was a disturbing event to say the least.

chrystaltree · ‎05-10-2010

There was a story on the news about fake Amazon and Ups sites. They are sending out emails that look identical to the real sites and they get you to open it by referrencing a "a delay in your order". When you open it, the hackers can get into your computer and gain access to your credit card numbers. The advice was that if you get such an email, don't click on any links. Delete the email and then go to the actual Amazon or Ups site to see if it was a legitimate email. Although, I don't think Amazon would ever send such an email. If an order is delayed, the information would be in tracking.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@chrystaltree wrote:
There was a story on the news about fake Amazon and Ups sites. They are sending out emails that look identical to the real sites and they get you to open it by referrencing a "a delay in your order". When you open it, the hackers can get into your computer and gain access to your credit card numbers. The advice was that if you get such an email, don't click on any links. Delete the email and then go to the actual Amazon or Ups site to see if it was a legitimate email. Although, I don't think Amazon would ever send such an email. If an order is delayed, the information would be in tracking.

@chrystaltree,

I never click on links offered in my emails. I go directly to the site on my browser and never through an email link.

I'm thinking that this "virus" I picked up might be some sort of weird shopping tracking bit and not a true virus. Who knows but this concerns me because it was detected by my scanning software which provides protection from malicious activities.

cddh · ‎03-17-2010

I agree about never clicking an email link! What kind of antivirus protection are you using? I'm in the market.

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

@Kleo wrote:
I agree about never clicking an email link! What kind of antivirus protection are you using? I'm in the market.

@cddh,

I am using PCMatic....for about a year now. No problems with it whatsoever, except for one time their app wouldn't open and it was immediately fixed by their customer service with no interruption.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

I'm on my Win10 laptop this morning and as soon as I came to THIS website it said there was some kind of malware here.

I don't know if the a/v on this one is more sensitive or it's just some of the emoticons people use here that have malware, or what, but it kept warning me over and over until I stopped the warnings.

Never had a problem from Amazon. Sounds, uh, odd.

Furthermore, if people have their computers properly protected there shouldn't be any catching of viruses from a normal website.