[aklug] Re: Virus protection fake

Yeah it is the SmitFruad virus, it is extremely hard to get off windows ,
they actually just released the patch last week for vista, but if you have
sp3 for xp you should not get it.
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 11:11 AM, captgoodnight captgoodnight <
captgoodnight@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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