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I'm running Win8.1 and the strangest thing happened today.
I clicked on one of the news features under an open Sky news report and it opened ok but when I clicked again it opened another tab; and then another; and then another with a voice saying I had downloaded a virus and I should call a shown phone number immediately (I didn't ring of course).
The only way I could escape the tabs was to force a shut down.
I then did a full scan and disk clean-up, defrag etc.
It's all working OK nowexcept for one IE link to the 308 Forum which opens in very basic script without the usual layout. I can use it in the basic state but it should load like the 2008 Forum does.
Strange thing is that it only does this when I go into IE from the Desk Top page but not when I go in from the Tiles page.
Using IE from the Tiles page loads the 308 Forum page fully.
If I use Chrome from the Desk Top or Tiles pagesit loads the 308 Forum correctly.
Why should it not load this one page correctly?
I've taken out the shortcut and even triedpasting the link from the correctly opened page via the Tiles page.
A full virus scan shows no virus so what's happened?
Puzzled Al.
Edited by: allan40alt
I clicked on one of the news features under an open Sky news report and it opened ok but when I clicked again it opened another tab; and then another; and then another with a voice saying I had downloaded a virus and I should call a shown phone number immediately (I didn't ring of course).
The only way I could escape the tabs was to force a shut down.
I then did a full scan and disk clean-up, defrag etc.
It's all working OK nowexcept for one IE link to the 308 Forum which opens in very basic script without the usual layout. I can use it in the basic state but it should load like the 2008 Forum does.
Strange thing is that it only does this when I go into IE from the Desk Top page but not when I go in from the Tiles page.
Using IE from the Tiles page loads the 308 Forum page fully.
If I use Chrome from the Desk Top or Tiles pagesit loads the 308 Forum correctly.
Why should it not load this one page correctly?
I've taken out the shortcut and even triedpasting the link from the correctly opened page via the Tiles page.
A full virus scan shows no virus so what's happened?
Puzzled Al.

Edited by: allan40alt