Should I be worried??

[Jonny Two Shoes]

Here I am browsing with 2 windows...one is MYADSL and another is OpenGod for a list of open source apps.

I closed the window with OpenGod website and suddenly I have a hundred popups appearing one after the other in an endless loop of blank windows. So I go to task manager while my systems starts to slow down with all the windows opening. I stop the IExplorer process and it closes all windows.

So now I am back to browsing and nothing suspect is happening anymore. LOL should I be worried?

 

[mercurial]

I had the same experience a few times with IE, the few times I had to use it. I think it's a bug in the browser. Is it IE7?

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

No IE 6 :/ company refuses to upgrade or use any other browser for "security reasons"

 

[plummet]

you should do an indepth virus scan just to be safe, i had that once, destroyed my hdd..

 

[mercurial]

No IE 6 :/ company refuses to upgrade or use any other browser for "security reasons"

Lol. The company I work for is also still using IE6. I don't know why they don't use FF.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

ah whatever...Im on leave after today and I backed up everything already. If PC blows up into a million pieces... stf it

 

[Park@82]

you should do an indepth virus scan just to be safe, i had that once, destroyed my hdd..

Destroyed your hdd? or corrupted/deleted your files?

 

[plummet]

pretty much destroyed it....wotever it did, increased my cpu temperature to ridiculous levels causing my cpu to blow...the hdd was kapput...never worked again... n this happened to a friend of mines a couple weeks ago too... dont mess around with viruses..

 

[wcoetzee]

pretty much destroyed it....wotever it did, increased my cpu temperature to ridiculous levels causing my cpu to blow...the hdd was kapput...never worked again... n this happened to a friend of mines a couple weeks ago too... dont mess around with viruses..

that sounds like BS
but what if a virus could stop your CPU, GPU and System fans now that will fry something

 

[Park@82]

but for a few hoaxes, I have never heard of any virus that can destroy hardware.

 

[RSkeens]

The motherboard would have shutdown the system when the critical temperature is reached (provided you have that default feature enabled in the BIOS)...

As for the hard disk, the boot sector or filesystem may have been damaged, but not physically broken.

 

[.Froot.]

No IE 6 :/ company refuses to upgrade or use any other browser for "security reasons"

IE is amongst the most-unsafe browsers there is... whislt FireFox is the most secure. My ISP warns me if I try to access their https pages from anything other than FF.