[aklug] Re: Virus protection fake

From: captgoodnight captgoodnight <captgoodnight@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Apr 20 2009 - 10:11:09 AKDT

I hate that thing! It's no fun with 300+ employees on windows.
grrrrr
--eddie

> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:59:33 -0800
> From: barjunk@attglobal.net
> To: aklug@aklug.org
> Subject: [aklug] Virus protection fake
>
> My kids were recently doing some research on the web about a State project.
>
> They were using firefox and ran across a website that claimed my
> computer had a virus.
>
> Because my children are diligent, they clicked on the thing that says,
> 'fix this now'.
>
> What this did is try to download software to the local machine.
>
> Lucky for me, they were on a one of our Linux boxes and nothing bad
> happened, however, the site was VERY persistent in trying to get us to
> download the software.
>
> The screens looked very much like a windows dialog box and if I hadn't
> known any better, I'd a thought I had a real problem.
>
> This is becoming more and more sophisticated way to infect machines
> with malware and viruses.
>
> All the more reason to switch to Linux in my opinion.
>
> Mike B.
>
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