I’m seeing Trojan:JS/Flafisi.D detections and Tech Support Scams on the Edge browser Start page

Anonymous
2018-02-28T16:36:56+00:00

Update: A member of Microsoft's MSN Engineering Team (RodrigoLode(MSFT) has responded to acknowledge the malvertising issues associated with MSN portal. They have also requested ***" If anyone is still experiencing this, please reply here."***For more specifics on information requested please refer to the reply from Rodrigo at the following link:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_defender-protect_scanning-windows_10/im-seeing-trojanjsflafisid-detections-and-tech/8fbe8eaf-1af0-4e76-9ab0-57828f631a5f?page=7&messageId=3661a31c-2019-4808-a88b-283919038cc1

In addition to reporting the fake pop-ups themselves I would advise that you take note if there is a significant loss of performance on computer after encountering, in particular, the fake Adobe Flash Player update. If things seem sluggish you may have been subject to one of the more prevalent malicious activities known as crypto-mining/coin mining.

Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/microsoftsecure/2018/03/13/invisible-resource-thieves-the-increasing-threat-of-cryptocurrency-miners/

Especially important to report these occurrences or any other odd behaviors after using MSN website.

Moderator Edit: Provided update.

Just reading the “Comey trolls Trump” article on the Edge Start page and this pops up:

 This one was easy to handle because it was just the old-fashioned dialog loop based scam:

– but what’s coming next Microsoft?

GreginMich

[Original Title: Surprised again]

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-06-06T17:22:01+00:00

    All - we have our ad partners identify several ad IDs that were causing this. Most of them have been taken out of the rotation and we should see less occurrences of this. We also identified a particular ad buyer that seems to be the culprit and we're looking to ban it from our site. I'll keep you all posted.

    If you have a virus report, make sure to run Windows Defender on it. It should clean up your machine, though other adware might be present. I don't have a recommendation on it, but several folks seem to like Malwarebytes software for it.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-06T05:55:44+00:00

    I Had been seeing the adds redirecting for months reading MSN News. the past two weeks it had been quiet and not had one attempt. 

    Defender has thus far thwarted  every attempt.

    Today I was just hit with another one. 

    Win 10 fully patched , using Microsoft Edge.

    Thanks

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-06-05T22:52:37+00:00

    Yes-I was on edge Friday and now I can't access iTunes and another picture folder. What can I do to get this off my computer. I even received a text message that was a scam. Non of the virus protection programs on windows 10  will take this off.

    Jerry

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-06-05T22:10:42+00:00

    Hi all,

    I'm on the MSN Engineering team and would love help if anyone encounter this again. We've been tracking this since it started in mid February. We do quite a bit of work to scan the ads we get from our exchanges, but some behave differently for certain users than they do when we do our scanning. In the future, please continue to submit feedback so we can narrow the scans on our end and potentially reproduce and remove this once and for all. If your page was hijacked and you couldn't view the article, please mention the article headline you've visited as well. 

    If anyone is still experiencing this, please reply here. 

    Thanks,

    -Rodrigo (MSN Engineering)

    i have the virus if you can help me get rid of it it would be greatly appreciated please get back to me as soon as possible

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