Malware?

[Olyphant]

Yesterday, while updating dependencies on some of my addons, a dialogue box popped up with the flash player logo claiming that my flash player was out of date. Like an idiot I clicked okay and it began to download a plethora of apps to my win10 pc, that I can only think were some type of malware. Luckily my protection anti-virus etc. stopped it from changing anything and I was eventually able to root all the little bugs out (I hope) before they were able to do anything more devastating than just annoy the heck outa me, but I wanted to sound an alarm just in case (I used to have a student named Justin Case, true story) it was something lurking on this site and not something from the seedy underbelly of the web that circumvented my firewall.