I was attempting to install a homebrew program, when I clicked a link and ended up on an adf.ly page. I would never have followed the link if the hover text had’ve indicated where it was leading. A while ago, the site was safe if you didn’t click anything, but as of a few months ago (by my best estimates) it started bombarding my old computer with intrustion attempts, so naturally I avoided it on my new PC. Unfortunately, as previously discussed, I’ve ended up on their page for a few seconds and Norton has picked up 3 intrusion attempts. Closed the page immediately as the first one appeared but the other two came up after launching it. It really spooked me given this is the most expensive PC I’ve ever bought, and I promptly started a full system scan, which has just finished, finding no issues. Since the incident, the only suspicious activity I’ve experienced is a startling decrease in general performance (although this was probably due to the full system scan) and 4 telephone tone like bleeps coming from an unknown source while I was on a discord call. Might have more to do with discord than anything though. To clarify, I didn’t even get to the download page, so I haven’t manually installed anything from the dubious source, the full system scan returned no errors, and there’s no irregular security history activity after the last of the three successive attempts. Just wondering what I should do next - is there any chance Norton missed anything? And is there anything I should do in future to prevent a possible issue like this? Attatched some screenshots from security history. Apologies if anything’s not useful or incorrect, I’m not very techy.
You're most welcome. Just remember, no matter how tight you set your FF settings when a web browser renders the files related to a website, it will use the highest privileges the USER "logged in on the machine" has. If you can, use a non-admin account on your OS, so that if something does make it past all safe guards, the damage to the system will be minimal and recoverable.
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I have cleared browser cache and cookies now. I am using Mozilla Firefox and Norton Lifelock Security. Not sure which version it is but using the "check for new update" feature confirms it's the latest one as of this comment.
Installed Malwarebytes and the threat scan found nothing. Seems to be all good. Performance doesn't seem too bad either, I was most likely paranoid. No other symptoms have persisted.
Thanks for the advice!
Hello JP. Have you cleared your browser cache and cookies? What browser are you using and what is your Norton product and its version?
You may also want to download Malwarebytes and run a full scan with it. MBAM will detect issues Norton doesn't focus on since Norton is designed to prevent the destruction / damage to the OS. Let us know what, if anything MBAM finds.
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