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Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.16 - Getting anoying messages everytime I enter a website

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December 4, 2013
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Hi,

In the last hour I started receiving anoying messages in my browser asking me to download this Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.16 version. There is a download button in the message which leads me to a supicous website (http://81.4.120.101/FlashInstall.zip) and I don't believe it is from Adobe. The file to download is about 3 MB and it is compressed.

The problem is that I can't do anything and this message keeps appearing and does not allow me to navigate on the sites. I use chrome, win8, have the latest mcafee antivirus installed and could not find much about this issue on Google.

Please, could you help me?

Thanks!

Daniel

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lucasbessoni

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I am in Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil too. I only have the message on my mac book air and only on safari. Chrome and mozila is clean. No other device on the network has the problem. First I thought tha my mac was infected. Tried anti-virus, but no sucess. Searched on the internet, but only found post from the first flashback appearance, on april, 2012. Seens to be a new threat. But at the end, I cleared my cook cache and its solved. No anoying messages. Very strange.

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tiellemd

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I did everything that you guys posted, but nothing was happening

so I tried unable my pluggins and solved.

One by one I discovery that my problem was my old Mcafee.

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precise_Eclipse154A

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Just got for over half an hour with NET Virtua's Tech support trying to explain the case to the attendant, but got no luck in talking to the right department or someone who could understand the matter…

Switching my computer from OpenDNS to NET's DNS back and forth makes the problem appear and disappear. And it seems to appear in different pages each time, so it seems like it substitutes random DNS requests, since some pages that were showing the symptom are not anymore.

So, simply clearing caches would solve the problem for some pages, but it'd reappear in others after some time.

For everyone, I'd suggest switching your computer (or router) to OpenDNS or Google's DNS, and flushing your DNS records so it'll use the new ones in the meantime (clearing the caches, as suggested).

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Eduardo_Palma

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I'm having this problem as well. As Mike M suggested, I checked my installed software in "Programs and Features" and found nothing I didn't install myself. And I'm also from Brazil and using the same ISP as Topliff, but I don't know if this is related.

C_F_McBlob

Inspiring

Look in your Control Panel>Programs and features>Uninstall a program
Look for File.org, FileType Assistant or ANY updater/assistant program that you don't SPECIFICALLY remember installing.

Antivirus won't find these because they're "browswer hacks" and not viruses by definition.

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dtborgesAuthor

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Hi Mike,

Unfortunately there aren't any programs I could find with similar description nor did not recall installing. Thanks for your help anyway.

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Topliff

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Are you in Brazil by any chance? I've been receiving the same messages regardless of what browser or computer I use. The only thing that seems to fix it for me is using a VPN, which leads me to believe it could have something to do with my ISP (Virtua).

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dtborgesAuthor

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Yes, I'm in Brazil as well. Seems odd that this topicwas viewed more than 400 times within 50 minutes. I have read one possible solution saying that this "virus" or whatever this is affects your router, therefore its reset and reconfiguration is needed. I'm looking for a simpler solution. I'm not an expert but there must be another way to solve this. I'd really appreciate if someone could shed some light on this.

Thanks,

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rodrigonp

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I am also in Brazil and I was having the same problem.

Turns out this is a way that mackeeper forces you to renew its antivirus subscription. Once I renew it, the message got away.

And now I am feelling robbed by mackeeper.

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