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
    2018-06-05T22:10:42+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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  3. Anonymous
    2018-06-04T15:46:35+00:00

    Since the post that I am replying to, my brand new laptop has been acting more sluggish than normal.  My taskbar keeps refreshing every few minutes on the computer.  And my disk runs at 100% almost all the time when I am working.   I right-clicked on my Control Panel button, and I discovered that Flash Player (32-bit) had been installed on my device.  When I tried to delete it from my jump menu, it will not delete itself.

    Well, yesterday, I decided to perform a Clean Install to rid myself of any viruses.  That did not work.  In fact, while the install was nearing its end, I received a message saying "It's taking a bit longer than expected, but we'll get there as fast as we can."  I think  that the trojan installed itself on my laptop when I tried to remove it.

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