RE: [NF] Fake Antivirus Software

Author: Bill Arnold

Posted: 2011-03-24 at 03:53:17

Peter,

Got hit with similar/same attack last week when I went to check in on

Vincent Bugliosi's site promoting his book.

Mostly recovered by restoring the XP machine to a prior checkpoint.

It caught my attention that the attack breezed right past MS Security

Essentials.

Bill

> Yesterday I went onto a site via Google which I have used

> before to download

> a particular printer service manual.

>

> A message popped up to say that AVG had found virus like

> activity. But first

> of all I haven't got AVG on that computer and it wasn't the

> norm AVG message

> just a plain windows dialogue box.

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Peter Hart

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