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]

Windows for home | Windows 10 | Security and privacy

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-04-28T09:29:48+00:00

    Hello Rodrigo

     I was using Edge this morning and found an article on the MSN page that sounded interesting and after about 10 seconds I was diverted to the Adobe website and Windows Defender came up a few seconds later with the JS/Flafisi.D threat was found. I was researching what it was and saw your request for information from anyone that experiences it, and I just have.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-04-25T08:55:08+00:00

    I didn't. I couldn't see a space for comments in the menu.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-04-13T18:49:53+00:00

    Great! Yeah, I get a ton more metadata when it's sent through the native MSN feedback entry. Thank you!

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-04-12T18:21:46+00:00

    It might help to clear all your cookies and temp files to skip some of the ad targeting. Also, you can disable Flash in Edge settings which could help as well.

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  5. Anonymous
    2018-03-20T01:42:27+00:00

    Here is an example of an offending domain i was redirected to from MSN (which attempted to malware me)... using edge...

    Cmon Microsoft... do something.

    hxxps://mai2olinkwissenschaft.org/2720392039203.... tons of numbers..

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