Request to open suspicious link

[Garbn]

I get the following message at least once a day on my PC"

Do you want to open or save default_179583-1.JS (545 bytes) from cdn.fastclick.net

I assume this is a destructive link or malware. How do I stop these messsges?

[ruirib]

Hi,

Welcome to the Lounge.

What are you doing when that happens? Visiting a specific website?

[spetho2001]

I am getting the same thing when I access my email in Yahoo.
Can you tell me about it?
Thank you

[satrow]

https://www.virustotal.com/file/8a32...56f5/analysis/ - looks clean but there's no additional information listed for it.

Change your Yahoo! email password, download Malwarebytes, update it and run a scan. http://www.majorgeeks.com/Malwarebyt...are_d5756.html

[BruceR]

It's probably a javascript banner ad at a site which you visit, perhaps only partially blocked by your pop-up stopper: How spyware gets installed

Users have been able to eliminate such instances by adding *.fastclick.net to their restricted sites zone. (It was already in my restricted sites zone from a long list of bad sites.)

Using Internet Explorer I get a pop-up asking to download a file from cdn.fastclick.net

Bruce

[jockmullin]

It looks like the site you are visiting is trying to create a cookie in javascript. cdn.fastclick.net is part of fastclick.com which is an ad tracking service used by websites for advertising purposes.

You could:
- disable java
- add fastclick.net and fastclick.com to your site blocking list
- complain at/stop using the site(s) which are generating this activity.

Jock

[BruceR]

It looks like the site you are visiting is trying to create a cookie in javascript. ...
You could:
- disable java

I think, because javascript and java are two totally different things, that disabling active scripting would be the appropriate action here. But not as useful as your other options.

Bruce

[satrow]

Having Java disabled except when you are actually using a website that needs it to function should be a given.