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#1

When I go to Libreoffice.org to download the software to a Lenovo Laptop, running Windows 7, I get the following:

This time an ad from Cabelas came up first and then I get a small white screen that says there is a virus on my computer, ads by dealpeak for a virus destroyer.

I have run the following:

Ccleaner

Glary Utilities

Malwarebytes

and AD-Aware.

Have I been hacked or have you folks.

If I can help in any way, please contact me.

Rex Stowers
r.j.stowers@sbcglobal.net
636-233-3873
109 King Dr.
St. Charles, MO 63303-3501

Thank you.

#2

Hi,

There is no Anti-Virus in the list and you :confused:

Liebe Grüße / Yours,
Florian Reisinger

#3

Try Anti-virus packages like Comodo Internet Suite [great free version]. That is what I run on my Win7 systems.

You might even try using their root-key utility to make sure that part of your system is clean.

#4

Hi :slight_smile:
Rex, it sounds like a "Phishing" exercise! Anything that claims there
is a problem of any type with your computer and then asks you to
download their program to fix it is likely to be an attempt to trick
you into installing some malware/virus onto your machine.

It does sound like either your machine is already infected or that
somehow you got to a wrong website/web-page that is trying to mimic
our download page. As Tim recommended, it is a good idea to get an
antivirus program or anti-malware suite or entire Security Suite and
then scan your machine with that. I use AVG but i've never tried the
one Tim recommends so i don't know which is best. I just use AVG on
all machines (except the non-Windows ones where i sometimes use
ClamAv) and have done quite happily for years. In some surveys it's
listed as the best of the free ones.

In the meantime it might be a good idea to use our official download
web-page, unless it's the one you just tried. Did you use either this
one?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-still/
or this one?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/

Either of those should be safe. We usually develop 2 branches at the
same time. Fresh tends to have newer features and better
compatibility with MS Formats but may have a few unexpected things
broken (although most people generally don't dig around enough to find
them). Still tends to be more solid and reliable but lacks the newer
features and may not have such good compatibility with MS Formats.

I think most of us on this mailing list tend to use "Still" for most
of our clients machines and on ones we don't have easy access to or
don't want to have to keep trying to fix but then try use "Fresh" on
our own machine or on a test machine.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile: