So, yesterday my son (a Scout) tried to submit his Eagle Scout application to his Scoutmaster for review, using email.
Today I got an email from his Scoutmaster, saying the following:
Thursday afternoon late your son sent several emails about blue cards plus also tried to send an attachment for his Eagle application. I tried to open Eagle application email attachment several times. When I tried to respond to him my computer had a ‘pop-up’ MS Outlook showing the file being copied! Title was SSL.gstatic.com. after that point when I tried to respond to other people with Gmail accounts, same pop up box from MS Outlook trying to copy my reply email to ssl.gstatic.com. I tried for several hours to trace ‘gstatic.com’ URL via Google Chrome. Each time I received … not on this server.
Saturday after using Firefox I was able to trace URL to Google. I tried to remove gstatic.com but it would come back. I called Rusty [his troop's IT person], who spent about an hour removing and re-removing gstatic.com from my computer. Only until we removed his email, did it seem to go away. But my email is now running slower so I guess I still have work to do on my computer.
Point is, while gstatic.com seems to be part of Google’s tracking and should be “OK” more I read about gstatic.com, more issues … ssl.gstatic.com being one of them.
I would humbly suggest Adam’s computer be cleaned with paid version of commercial virus-adware-malware software such as Bitdefender, etc.
Following his advice, I ran an Avast Antivirus scan of my computer. Nothing came up.
For reference, my son sent the files from Gmail's browser client, and the Scoutmaster's account is a TroopMaster account being accessed from Microsoft Outlook (I don't know which version).
Is this an actual virus, or is it just Google not working well with Outlook?
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