HIJACKED WEBPAGE

[ghardison]

Today marks the second day in a row I've settled in to read Net News, and about five minutes into the process, the entire page is hijacked for an ad by McAfee "anti-virus". I've always considered McAfee to be a scam, perhaps delivering paid-for malware, but is this a problem affecting your own webpage? Is it just me, or my cheap, semi-functional isp?? It always causes me to x-out and start over; I have seen this on other random websites in the past, but never two days in a row until here and now. We must consider, though, whether the McAfee scam monster is slowly gobbling up the otherwise-great AllAccess.

[jdenver]

Hi ... I can't replicate this issue. Suggest that you clear your cache and let me know if this issue persists. Thanks -- Joel

[nut]

I had the same thing happen! I thought it was the midget porn i had been surfin... but no. MALWARE. you need to remove fastcaptcha from whatever browser you were using.

https://malware.guide/adware/remove-fas ... more-16592

Or search remove fastcaptcha from Chrome/Safari/Edge, etc

[jdenver]

Looks like this popup is triggered by something on your machines ... here is what Google suggests as a remedy:
https://www.mcafee.com/learn/how-to-stop-the-popups/

Keep us posted -- Thanks -- Joel Denver

[ghardison]

I think the cache-clearing process may have gobbled my reply, so at the risk of redundancy...Thanks to all for the advisories. Cache-clearing should've been an obvious remedy, which obviously I didn't think about. So we'll see what happens now. And it's worth possibly repeating: I can't fathom what brand of idiot at McAfee would view this as a marketing tool. I wouldn't venture to try any McAfee product now, if you gave it to me for free!