is this a scam

[steak4me]

Last week I was happily surfing the net when my page blanked out and I got a message from google chrome saying windows had found my computer was infected with trojans and several other viruses. It was saying that several of these were critical and I needed to click the box to remove them. I ignored it and did a full scan with mcafee,, which I have installed and nothing came up. Today the same message came up again and I have ignored it has anyone else had this happen and am I doing right by just ignoring it. thanks

[Buenchico]

As the Pit Viper has suggested, it's almost certainly a malware problem. Malwarebyte's Anti-Malware should quickly fix it for you.

[tamborine]

v. apt :)

[steak4me]

Thanks guys have ran malwarebytes and it said i had 184 infections so hopefully should have problem solved. Thanks again

[VHG]

Make sure you run malwarebytes on a regular basis.

Maybe once a week.

Note the free version does NOT autorun so you need to run it yourself manually.

[craft1948]

I had this last week and Norton found and fixed 38 problems.

[askyourgran]

I had that problem last weekend, steak.........., Well I had steak as well but I downloaded the free malwarebytes but It now asks for product code which I don't have or purchase. How do you run it for free manually vhg?

[rojash]

Malwarebytes doesn;t ask for a product code. You just open it and click scan.
If the product you've installed is asking for a product code, then it ain't malwarebytes.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Click download free version

[TTG]

Surf using a restricted Windows account. Won't stop everything but it's better than using an Admin account for everything.

[Davethedog]

I have the free Malwarebytes (and very good it is to) what would be the advatage if any of getting the paid for version?

[askyourgran]

Thanks rojash, uninstalled malware just in case and installed the free malwarebytes. It took over 2 hours to do a full scan 47 errors quarantined, Hopefully I'm OK now.