Just a friendly reminder; for the love of all things holy, don't fall for this if it lands in your inbox ...

This ransomware just landed in mine (actually via the contact form here, which is just another laughable red flag; if they had all of this info they'd use a more direct line to me). It seems so blantantly obvious on so many levels that it's fake that's it's astonishing to think anyone would fall for it, but those gullible ones do apparently exist, hopefully our dear readers aren't among them.

http://www.msftconnecttest.com/redirect

I use a Web Browser Chooser app that allows me to choose which web browser from a list of installed browsersthat will popup whenever a URL is loaded outside of a browser. It shows the URL in the title bar thatit will go to once the browser choise is selected from the list. Sometimes when Windows starts, it'll automatically popup with "http://www.msftconnecttest.com/redirect" in the titlebar.

• Does anyone know what this is?
• What's launching it?
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Sometimes I get this random page loading whenever I log on to Windows, seemingly after I lose internet connection. This page will load up all by itself:

https://www.msn.com/?ocid=wispr&pc=u598

I've done Malware scans with Adaware and Malwarebytes. and they say I'm clean. Am I infected??

 Hi All 

I have this bloody annoying self-executing popup websites that makes it hard not to smash my computer. When I am connected to the net even with browser closed it opens the browser by itself to show me all sorts of useless adds. I have installed addblocker and classic popup blocker onto my Chrome browser and I run the Avast! antivirus add in. This morning I tried SuperAntiSpyware professional and it picked up a Trojan but the problem persist.

I have a file in my Windows Startup named "UpdReg.EXE" in my Windows folder (C:\Windows\UpdReg.EXE), is it a virus and if not, what is it? Can I disable it without harming my computer? TY