Is this a virus?

[jnvan]

I have started to receive a message that I thought was legitimate but now it appears in the opening pane of my email provider and in the directory pane of all my emails. Only part of it displays in the emails but when I click on a link in an email, it sometimes goes to a new window and displays an icon of the globe with a large red X and this:
"Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" followed by button which, when clicked, expands with instructions on how to fix the problem. Sometimes it shows up on some web page at the top with the word "Advertisment". Nothing shows up when I run Spy Bot or Ad Aware. Any ideas?

 

[BadBigBen]

Any ideas?

Yes...



Besides running SpyBot and AdAware, run the following programs...

Malware Bytes MBAM and run a full scan...

DL from the Trend Micro website, HiJackThis run it with LOG function, then paste the LOG here for our perusal...

Run your AV that you have installed, if you do not have one installed then I suggest that you do install one...

Run an Online Viral Scan, e.g.

http://housecall65.trendmicro.com/

Post back...



Ben
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