Hi :) 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 :) On 4 February 2015 at 12:46, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > On 02/03/2015 04:11 PM, Rex wrote: >> >> 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.stow...@sbcglobal.net >> 636-233-3873 >> 109 King Dr. >> St. Charles, MO 63303-3501 >> >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
