Gonna post here as well, since this thread might be good place to post this:
Please don't click the links unless you know of the possible risks. I just want to mention this so that no one clicks them by mistake and get infected. To see the links, quote this post.
Ok, so I want to ask here in case anyone knows about this. I was over at a friend and was gonna help him install a game. Something went wrong and I got an error message that I didn't know what to do about. So I searched for the error message and went to the following site: (quote this post to see the link. I hid it under the quote so that noone clicks it by mistake without having read my whole post and understand the possible risks)
So when I went there, I got a message in the browser saying something along the lines of "The file of this type can hurt your computer. Do you still want to keep the file blank.htm?" followed with a choice to either keep it or throw it away. So while I threw it away, I am really afraid that I infected his computer with something now. Maybe there are other malware being sent on you when entering the page as well, that didn't get noticed, or that blank.htm wasn't deleted fully.
I tried to search for this blank.htm, and while I didn't really understand all of what they were talking about in my search results, it sounded scary (to me at least). I'm just very scared of exposing someone else to malware. :/
So my brother and I both went to that site but we never got any message from it, however I'm not sure if that might be because we are using more and different security programs than my friend.
Also, when I entered the following article, the computer of my friend would freeze for a short time, being unable to even move the mouse: (I have hidden this site under quote as well, for the same reason as the above)
Again, I'm afraid if entering this article might have been bad, or even having been the root for why he gets the message when entering the first link.
So please don't click the links unless you are aware of the possible risks. I wanted to ask anyone if they know anything about all this. I have done a search with an anti-virus program so far and I'm gonna install some more to do more searches. However, while the risk may be low that no program snaps up if there is indeed any malware, I might end up formatting his computer. I'd like to refrain from doing so, but the risk of having infected someone else's computer and leaving it there isn't a risk I want to take.
Sorry if this post was written poorly.