Do I have spyware?

[Drtydzn12]

Hey everyone, this is my first mac, with that being said, I am scared thinking I have spyware. Just browsing on myspace, I get a pop up that says all the usual bs "warning you have a virus scan this scan that blah blah blah" i cancel, then the browser goes to a page of what looks like a windows "my computer" screen.

a second popup comes simultaneously, with the only option being "OK". i hit escape, the page goes back to myspace. this is the first time it ever happened to me, do i have spyware?

sorry if my english is terrible, i live in hawaii and we got this slang called pidgin, so yeah. haha.

thanks for the help guys!

 

[spinnerlys]

Pop-up advertisement, nothing more I presume.

Don't worry.

 

[angelwatt]

Yup, nothing more than pop-up ads. Though I'd think the browser's pop-up blocker should stop those. Make sure it's in enabled in your browser so you can void most of those.

 

[raygungirl]

Hey everyone, this is my first mac, with that being said, I am scared thinking I have spyware. Just browsing on myspace, I get a pop up that says all the usual bs "warning you have a virus scan this scan that blah blah blah" i cancel, then the browser goes to a page of what looks like a windows "my computer" screen.

a second popup comes simultaneously, with the only option being "OK". i hit escape, the page goes back to myspace. this is the first time it ever happened to me, do i have spyware?

sorry if my english is terrible, i live in hawaii and we got this slang called pidgin, so yeah. haha.

thanks for the help guys!

Your English sounds 100% a-ok to me. Although, I am an American.

Definitely just a pop-up. If you're using Firefox, Adblock Plus might help, too. I've only recently been using it and I always wonder why it took me so long to install it, because it's great.

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

They're just popups.

 

[dandaman2]

iAntiVirus

Agreed, just pop ups. Though, another macrumors forums user tipped me off to a little app called iAntiVirus. I don't keep it running all to time because between all my other utilities, I don't have the extra memory, and I use safe web practices anyway. But, every month or so, I use that program to do a full scan just to be extra sure.