Just goes to show that even the experienced computer geek can come into contact with a possible invasion! This virus took on the format of the Firefox Browser making it appear legitimate, which would entice the unsuspecting computer owner to think they must have to click ok, which would actually start the process of infection. The Google link itself is the malicious content. This is proof of how advanced viruses, trojans, etc. has become. Obviously your WOT program did not target this because it was the link, and not the contents within the link. Never click ok or even mouse over a screen such as this. You're better off shutting down through your task manager, and shutting down the computer altogether. Don't even click on the red x. As I push heavily for safe/smart browsing, this is one instance where it is especially needed! Good catch, zep! Thanks for the "heads up"! bbbluz

This seems pretty clearly a phishing scam. Kudos for not falling for it and thanks for warning everyone here. The only thing I don't understand is why people even stay on the line long enough for them to get to the point of asking for any information. Whether they are a trying to run a scam, or are a "legitimate" telemarketer, or doing a survey or whatever, they are relying on you to be polite and courteous to allow them to work their way through their script to try to lure you in. I prefer to switch to my own script: Me: Hello (pause) Them: Is this Mr. (my wife's last name)? or: Is Mrs. (my last name) there? Me: (sharply) What is this call regarding. (flat intonation) Them: I'm from (somewhere) calling about (somethi...) Me: (interrupting) I'm hanging up now. Me: (continuing) Don't ever, ever, EVER call back! Me: Do you hear me?! (repeat until they to start to respond) Them: Yes I ... Me: (hang up) Yes this is rude toward the person on the other end of the line, however even if they are an otherwise friendly, pleasant person, they voluntarily chose to take the job. I believe that everyone adopted this script, telemarketing (and phone scams) would end within a year.

The organization of our remodeled kitchen has really helped. I was fortunate that we could rework our kitchen so that we could add more cabinetry. Creative nesting and unnesting of objects in the few cabinets in our old kitchen was so annoying that I really hated putting anything away. I love having a variety of cabinetry. I'm not of the drawer-for-all-purposes ilk. I love matching the items I want to store to the right type of cabinet. For instance, my large mixing bowls, stainless and glass, are on the bottom shelf of a door cabinet. It's really simple to open a door and get a good view of the bowls from the side (instead of a view of the top items only in a drawer) and to grab a bowl from the bottom of the stack without having the sides of a drawer interfering. I would hate having to pull out the entire stack of bowls every time I wanted one near the bottom. I use a variety of these bowls just about every time I prepare something and for me, the fixed shelf is the ideal spot. An all-drawer kitchen would have forced me to compromise. I love having lots of upper shelves. I can space them as closely as possible to make as much of the vertical space as I can. The more surfaces I have, the less nesting I have to do. Roll outs, although not as convenient as drawers, allow better use of vertical space. If a drawer is too deep space is wasted and if a drawer is too shallow it's unusable. I prioritized storage so that my most used items are in a drawer, on an upper shelf or in the front of a roll out or fixed shelf. Lesser and rarely used items get placed in the less convenient spots. That way, I have easy access to everything I need 90-95% of the time while keeping the flexibility of vertical space management with some non-drawer cabinets sprinkled in. My kitchen still gets messy but it always feels under control because I can zoom around the kitchen and get things put away quickly since a lot of nesting isn't involved. And I agree, our dw dish drawers have also helped with kitchen tidiness. It's a lot less daunting when only half a dw at a time has to be unloaded. I hated getting down on the floor in my old kitchen to find something on the shelf of a base cabinet. But I love the fixed shelf base cabinet that I have in my new kitchen because I was able to pick and choose the items that are best stored there. This type of cabinet offers more storage than any of my drawer or pull out cabinets. I think an all-or-nothing approach forces items to be stored in less than ideal spots. I would hate having my large bowls in a drawer but conversely, I would hate having my pots and pans on a fixed shelf. Adding some variety allows options and in mho, a better chance for optimizing storage.

The product I was using was Norton 360, I've always presumed they are on the up-and-up. But I got tired of all the come-ons to purchase Lifelock and a more secure router from them after paying them quite a bit for protection. It was constant. Kudzu9, awhile back I posted here asking if Windows Defender was good enough. You advised me that Avast Free was very good and gave me instructions (so complete and easy to follow, thank you) on how to switch when my contract was up. So when the contract was going to end I did the switch a couple of days before it ended. Everything went fine, I had uninstalled Norton before I downloaded the Avast program. So 2 days after the contract was to end was when I got the phone call. I just think it's quite a coincidence. I'm just wondering if it's a scare tactic. The robot that left the message never gave the company name. Mayfleur01, I don't know what you are referring to concerning ACH, what is that?