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

2018-05-20T04:55:32+00:00

This just happened and I "x" out of the tab and checked Windows Defender and it shows this threat found. I don't know how to "remove" the threat. Now what do I do??? I took a couple of screen shots to include here- This is the history at 902 and the site I was on when it popped up. ![](https://learn-attachment.microsoft.com/api/attachments/22e4c437-e8de-4065-954f-4abd1b6ff235?platform=QnA
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Anonymous

2018-05-20T02:03:25+00:00

Just got Trojan: JS/Flafisi.D around 8:30pm central, 5/19/2018. I was on finance/yahoo.com reading up on ticker MU in the financials tab. Don't get this very often but, when I do it totally takes over the page. So far Windows Defender has blocked it.

Would appreciate if Microsoft would tell me how to get rid of this!

I'm getting a notice of a major Microsoft update that needs my help to download. I have been clicking to remind me later. Does anyone know if I can trust this? I don't know what to trust anymore?

Thanks, Jim
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Anonymous

2018-05-18T21:49:55+00:00

This is causing huge problems, how do I remove this virus
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Anonymous

2018-05-18T20:57:15+00:00

Today I tried to click on the link to take me to the MLB section of the MSN sports section and got a malvertising warning regarding a slowdown on my computer due to infection. Obviously, this is still an issue. I forgot to get a screenshot of the message but the link was

https://ssdf.space/page/us/virus/virusKiller.php?clickid=20180518010017\_544\_j8EaaKBd

Paul, would you please send some feedback so I can track what ad got served to you that led you there? The feedback button is on any MSN page on the lower right corner of the page. You can write "got malvertising, scam ad - please follow up".

Thank you!
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