Facebook somehow redirected me to a page telling me that my PC was infected earlier. Should I be worried?

[NONAME]

I'd consider myself to be an intermediate with PC's and I know that my PC wasn't infected before visiting this site. I don't know how, but my Facebook page randomly directed itself towards this site. I don't know if an application redirected me or if I accidentally clicked on an ad. It was the standard "your PC in infected. Click here to clean it" scam. I've just spent the last day and a half restoring my PC after a borrowed DVD-ROM (potentially) infected my PC. I'm just worrying now that I may have to start again. Could the site have infected my PC. Kaspersky hasn't found anything and it's usually pretty good at protecting my PC. Do I start restoring again, or leave it as is?

Also, I would post a link to the site (it's still in my history - no URL, just an IP address), but I don't want to infect anyone else, or get my Y!A account banned!

Thanks for any help!

[Nick]

Try getting AVG, you might have accidentally clicked on a phishing link...
If it still doesn't get rid of it, I suggest backing up all of your things onto a disk or flash drive and reformat your computer..
It would get rid of the virus/problem..
Good luck.

[UK_PC_Technician]

You most probably just clicked on an ad from facebook, another reason not to really use it.
However if Kaspersky hasn't found anything then your safe. Kaspersky and Trend are the best two anti viruses you can get. Dont get AVG or any of that rubbish, stick to Kaspersky.

Under the protection setting on Kaspersky, make sure you have the online setting checked , this will keep you safe.

With those sites that pop up saying your infected,they only infect your pc if you click on them, so viewing them wont harm you, you may get a tracking cookie but that's its. You can get superantispyware which is free and is an ace at finding and removing tracking cookies

[hmmm........]

it's normally a ploy, and as long as you didn't click on anything allowing it to scan (that's when the problems usually start) just to make sure, try doing a full scan of your PC whilst it's in safe mode.

if it still finds nothing, clear your web browser's cookies, cache and history, then do another scan in safe mode (this is in case the deletion of the cache "releases" something into your system). if all is clear after than you should be fine.

the last time i encountered a virus similar, it infected the web browser by redirecting every page to something else, then infected the PC with spyware overriding the anti-virus program popping up all this junk about downloading a new program. we managed to get rid of it by scanning and destroying it in safe mode. we used two programs, AVG anti-spyware (no longer exists on it's own) and spybot - search and destroy.

P.S. just so you know, if by restore you mean you've just used system restore it won't get rid of viruses.