You have an urgent message: Hi, Occasionally while in UHH I'll see a banner that tells me I have an urgent personal message waiting, or something to that effect with a little envelope...

Psergel Loc: New Mexico

Hi,
Occasionally while in UHH I'll see a banner that tells me I have an urgent personal message waiting, or something to that effect with a little envelope icon for me to click on.
Is this real or is it like the banners that offer to help me reduce my mortgage payments etc??

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Psergel wrote:

Hi,
Occasionally while in UHH I'll see a banner that tells me I have an urgent personal message waiting, or something to that effect with a little envelope icon for me to click on.
Is this real or is it like the banners that offer to help me reduce my mortgage payments etc??

I get these every day. It's been happening for several weeks. If it's a zip file, it could be that malware that holds your computer for ransom. I never open files like that, and I read a few days ago that it's probably a worldwide ransom virus.

It might say it's a message about a package deliver, court appearance, credit card problem, etc.; always something to get your attention.

http://www.today.com/money/nasty-new-malware-locks-your-files-forever-unless-you-pay-8C11511655

gwong1 Loc: Tampa, FL

I clicked on it and I believe it is a e-mail messaging service, that I did not download or install. I ignore when I see it now. Gary

Psergel wrote:

Hi,
Occasionally while in UHH I'll see a banner that tells me I have an urgent personal message waiting, or something to that effect with a little envelope icon for me to click on.
Is this real or is it like the banners that offer to help me reduce my mortgage payments etc??

SpeedyWilson Loc: Upstate South Carolina

I've never seen that message on UHH or any other site.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

gwong1 wrote:

I clicked on it and I believe it is a e-mail messaging service, that I did not download or install. I ignore when I see it now. Gary

That's another bad one. Is it WhatsApp? I get them occasionally, telling me I have a voicemail or message. It's always an exe or zip file, so I ignore them.

WhatsApp is apparently a legitimate app, but spammers are using it to spread malware.

http://www.whatsapp.com/

Psergel Loc: New Mexico

jerryc41 wrote:

I get these every day. It's been happening for several weeks. If it's a zip file, it could be that malware that holds your computer for ransom. I never open files like that, and I read a few days ago that it's probably a worldwide ransom virus.

It might say it's a message about a package deliver, court appearance, credit card problem, etc.; always something to get your attention.

http://www.today.com/money/nasty-new-malware-locks-your-files-forever-unless-you-pay-8C11511655

Thanks Jerry. That's why I figured I'd ask before I got lured in.

Clif Loc: Central Ca.

I don't see anything like that on my MacBook Pro, I would not open it either, I do get a few direct marketing emails but only a couple a day, I don't open and usually trash those. I never try to have them remove me as I think that loads me into more of them. You might get out of ABC but you will be added to a dozen more. I almost never open my spam folder and when I do it is just that. It does a great job of "scraping the crap off the shoes."

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Clif wrote:

I don't see anything like that on my MacBook Pro, I would not open it either, I do get a few direct marketing emails but only a couple a day, I don't open and usually trash those. I never try to have them remove me as I think that loads me into more of them. You might get out of ABC but you will be added to a dozen more. I almost never open my spam folder and when I do it is just that. It does a great job of "scraping the crap off the shoes."

I've been unsubscribing from legitimate advertising emails, and they stay away, but malignant stuff like that is not going to stop sending email.

gwong1 Loc: Tampa, FL

Jerry, I think that is what it was, but not sure. If I get another, I will click to see what it is and reply again. Gary

jerryc41 wrote:

That's another bad one. Is it WhatsApp? I get them occasionally, telling me I have a voicemail or message. It's always an exe or zip file, so I ignore them.

WhatsApp is apparently a legitimate app, but spammers are using it to spread malware.

http://www.whatsapp.com/

Clif Loc: Central Ca.

Jerry, my comment was meant that while you get off the list for one specific advertiser that action may be used to add your address to several others run by that bulk emailing service. In getting off the one you may have directly, by giving your email address, listed yourself on many others that that bulk emailing service. I am not sure about this, but I found once I opted out I started getting more. Not responding seems to get me off the list in time.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Clif wrote:

Jerry, my comment was meant that while you get off the list for one specific advertiser that action may be used to add your address to several others run by that bulk emailing service. In getting off the one you may have directly, by giving your email address, listed yourself on many others that that bulk emailing service. I am not sure about this, but I found once I opted out I started getting more. Not responding seems to get me off the list in time.

I've heard that, but that hasn't been my experience. Many advertisers don't want to antagonize their base, so they give us the chance to avoid their emails.

The worst are those sites that offer a free iPad, or something, just for answering a few questions. You wind up entering your email address a dozen times before you give up. This would go on all day, and you would never get an iPad. You would get loads of junk email, though. This type of thing used to be very popular, but I think people might have wised up to it enough that they don't do it anymore.

Bangee5 Loc: Louisiana

Psergel wrote:

Hi,
Occasionally while in UHH I'll see a banner that tells me I have an urgent personal message waiting, or something to that effect with a little envelope icon for me to click on.
Is this real or is it like the banners that offer to help me reduce my mortgage payments etc??

It is an ad.

rpavich Loc: West Virginia

These are intrusive ads...I use an adblocker and I see that it's blocked 4 ads on this page alone.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

rpavich wrote:

These are intrusive ads...I use an adblocker and I see that it's blocked 4 ads on this page alone.

Four for me, too. When I look here on my iPad, I get the ads. I'll have to install a blocker there, too. Should be easy since I use Chrome on that, too.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Psergel wrote:

Hi,
Occasionally while in UHH I'll see a banner that tells me I have an urgent personal message waiting, or something to that effect with a little envelope icon for me to click on.
Is this real or is it like the banners that offer to help me reduce my mortgage payments etc??

Here's an example of what I get every day.