I think Nigel must have seen my posts and deleted the thread so nobody else would would have the same experience I did. Besides Larry and ScottY all the other posts were mine.

I clicked on the pic the first time rather than the song title link to hear the mp3. What happened was 8 programs were downloaded on my computer. I could not stop the download. The song title link seemed to be ok. It was a google mp3 download.

The downloads were:

-Blinkx beat
-Vid Video Codec
-Shopper Reports
-Quest Spam
-Mp3 Tube Toolbar, )which wouldnt let me delete unless I supplied an email address. I gave them a false one.)
-Isp Assistant-MP3 Tube
-Homepage Protection Service
-Click Potato

I was able to delete them from the Control Panel/ad, remove programs.

A number of ad pop-up frames came up. It took over my homepage. A few times some video program took over the entire screen.

I used Malwarebytes and it removed 22 malware. Spybot came up with 0. AVG will run later today and should take care of the rest if any.

Not sure if it was from Larry's link or if it was something already on my computer. Is that possible? Hardly seems likely the way it acted.

Either way I know that it was nothing intentional by Larry or montunoman if it did come from SZ.

I still may reinstall Windows 7.

I will post on the other thread when I have more time.

Other than that, ScottY, that isn't Samba D'Orpheau. In the USA, the song is also known as "A Day in the Life of a Fool", "Carnival", "Theme from Black Orpheus", or simply "Black Orpheus". In France, the song is also known as "La Chanson D'Orphée." The song is also known by the Spanish title "Mañana de Carnaval". All versions of foreign texts were written by different people using Bonfá's original music.

Malwarebytes is that a free download program....like Adware or?

Yes, Donnie. It's the one that even people in AT&T tech support use on their own computers.

Thanx maybe I'll try the free version.

Hi ScottL: I stand corrected. You are absolutely right. I had meant to cite Black Orpheus' alternate title of Manhã de Carnaval. Both it and Samba De Orfeu were written by the same composer: Luiz Bonfá.

Samba de Orfeu is a great tune too. I have head it as "Sweet Happy Life" in English. I believe both tunes were featured in a 1950's movie called "Black Orfeus" (Orfeu Negro) It's a film I've never seen but I've always wanted to check it out.

I'm not sure how that could happen. The only way an image can contain a virus, or malware is if it's an execution file. This was a simple embedded .jpg file. I suppose it is possible to embed a malicious link in a photo, but I assure you I didn't do that, because I'm not sure how to do that. Further the image of Paul was not a link, rather a .jpg file that becomes part of the thread, and the only option users have is to right click and download if they so desire. Accidentally left clicking on that image would do nothing because there was no execution to perform.

I'm sorry for your inconvenience, and I hope you are up and running 100% real soon, but I doubt very much your computer went crazy by accidentally left clicking on a .jpg file from a trusted fellow SZ member.

Good Luck, I feel bad for you, and again we are sorry this has happened.

Great program Scott thanx for the heads up... I had 3 infections removed. How often do you do a scan with it?

Hi Don,

Don't want to interfere, but I've been using the free version of Malwarebytes for 3 years. I perform a quick scan about every 2-4 weeks. Before scanning, click the Update button first to check for a download of the latest database.

Malwarebytes, Super Anti-Spyware, Microsoft Security Essentials, and C-Cleaner is a good combination for me and Windows 7. And they are all free.

Thanx Larry Ill give the others a look also ....
I only have Ms essentials and adware...