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

Anonymous

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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Anonymous

2018-05-04T17:40:38+00:00

Hi Mary,

Could you please submit a piece of feedback saying "trojan threat - please help"? I'll use this as a seed to investigate your cases together with all others. You're definitely getting the offending ad that downloads the virus as a targeted advertisement.

To submit feedback - just go to www.msn.com. Scroll the page just a tad bit to see the "Feedback" button at the bottom right corner of the page; click to open the dialog and write the message above. It would help me a ton!!

Thank you!

-Rodrigo

MSN Engineering.
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Anonymous

2018-05-04T16:11:23+00:00

After several weeks of pop-ups, Trojans, ransomeware etc they have now all stopped! Reset Windows saving all my files and have had no problems since!

HMMM! Isn't resetting MS Windows pretty hard core? Makes me nervous. I've mentioned in other posts what I've done. It's something I'm just anxiously co-existing with right now. Although I noticed my PC (or uBlock) completely disabled Flash. Well I "needed" it for something and re-enabled it. LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS ?!?!?!
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Anonymous

2018-05-04T16:04:45+00:00

After several weeks of pop-ups, Trojans, ransomeware etc they have now all stopped! Reset Windows saving all my files and have had no problems since!
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Anonymous

2018-05-04T14:09:59+00:00

Everyday I get a warning about a Trojan threat on my computer.

Thank you.

Since I installed uBlock Origin; I've stopped getting the Flashplayer and Microsoft driver update scam pop-ups. That blocker pretty much seems to stop most EVERYTHING. I did get a "warning" from them when a couple of pop ups tried to post when I was hunting for a site. It's about as easy to understand as their blocking product. Maybe I'm better off not knowing what I'm missing!!!!

Good Luck to us all!
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Anonymous

2018-05-04T13:57:03+00:00

Everyday I get a warning about a Trojan threat on my computer.

Thank you.
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