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
    2018-08-18T15:48:42+00:00

    Good example of not to believe everything you find on the internet. That review only gives pan according to WOT which itself has come under scrutiny because it's severely biased and not really based on security best practice methodology.

    ~rhab

    I don't believe everything I find on the internet! My comment was FWIW.

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  2. Rob Koch 26,075 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-01T17:48:12+00:00

    I tried to duplicate this problem myself using Edge after disabling all my more restrictive settings and enabling the newsfeed and top sites for both the start page and new tabs.  Have yet to see a single popup with only Windows Defender in real-time operation (MBAM free version only).

    I even tried browsing all over the various Yahoo News sites worldwide and clicking random, mostly politicl articles in both that and the MSN driven start page and still nothing.

    Any thoughts?

    Rob

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-03-01T17:29:37+00:00

    I didn’t have any problem removing the Tech Support Scam, Cyber; and I already know how to report bad websites. If you review my profile, you’ll see that I did all of the original groundwork on identifying the dialog loop as the underlying issue with these Tech Support Scams, and also the promotional work for the Microsoft Dialog Loop Protection patch for this issue.

    So that’s not really what this discussion is about – it’s really about the sudden appearance of malware and Tech Support Scams on the Edge Start page. I understand that my original title was impromptu and didn’t properly convey the content of the thread, so I agree that it should be changed. But I’m going to edit your edit in order to more accurately reflect the content of the discussion. 

    Thanks,

    GreginMich

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-03-01T08:22:18+00:00

    I forgot to add that a User recently reported >in this thread<

    having had the 'talking' scam ad

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  5. bhringer-9380 4,350 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2018-03-01T05:01:37+00:00

    IMO anything Trump may lead to a "honey POTUS" of undesirable activity.

    #notme ;-)

    ~bhringer

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