My wife called me in a panic a few days ago with the same message. She had

heard me talk about AVG so she called me right away. Thankfully I had

removed AVG from the system a few weeks ago when my contract with them

finally expired (that's a story for another thread) so I knew it was bogus.

What also got my attention was even if AVG found something, why would it

need to download something (an update?) to continue? That isn't how it

updates itself. Had I actually had AVG running, and not been paying

attention, I may have fallen for it especially when I'm on the phone and

can't see the screen. I'm sure that is what they are counting on...

The web is NOT a safe place.

Lou

-----Original Message-----

From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On

Behalf Of Demon

Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 10:54 PM

To: profoxtech@leafe.com

Subject: [NF] Fake Antivirus Software

Hi

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.

Being curious I clicked on the message and the page came up with an Explorer

like window showing Hard drives DVD roms etc. and the bottom of the page

showing virus's which it had supposedly found. Eventually another box came

up showing these virus's and with a button saying Remove All.

At this point I closed Internet Explorer. I ran Malware Bytes and MS

Security essentials which both scanned OK.

...

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