Daniel NA wrote:
> this morning I were in the Italian home page of AOL.
> I see to open a windows by toolsicuro.com
> I click on 'yes'. But the program do not start lol
> I am happy to use Linux :-)
>
>
If we're collecting stories:

I was looking for some icons the other day. When I visited some page, a
popup window appeared and told my that my machine maybe was infected and
asked if I wanted to do an online virus check. It offered "Cancel" and
"Ok". Obviously I selected "Cancel", but the thing started its scan
anyway and searched my entire C: drive, C:\Windows and all. In the end,
it told me that it had found a virus somewhere in
C:\Windows\System32\... and that I could d/l a tool to remove the virus.

Odd, on a Kubuntu 7.04 based system ;-)

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Josef Moellers wrote:
> Daniel NA wrote:
>> this morning I were in the Italian home page of AOL.
>> I see to open a windows by toolsicuro.com
>> I click on 'yes'. But the program do not start lol
>> I am happy to use Linux :-)
>>
>>
> If we're collecting stories:
>
> I was looking for some icons the other day. When I visited some page, a
> popup window appeared and told my that my machine maybe was infected and
> asked if I wanted to do an online virus check. It offered "Cancel" and
> "Ok". Obviously I selected "Cancel", but the thing started its scan
> anyway and searched my entire C: drive, C:\Windows and all. In the end,
> it told me that it had found a virus somewhere in
> C:\Windows\System32\... and that I could d/l a tool to remove the virus.
>
> Odd, on a Kubuntu 7.04 based system ;-)
>


Not odd on any system. I heard of a site that offers a file for Mac,
then tells Mac users that they need to download a codec to view it. If
they download the "codec," they get malware installed and have betrayed
their password to the villains.


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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:58:13 -0500, arvimide@earthlink.net wrote:

> Josef Moellers wrote:
>> Daniel NA wrote:
>>> this morning I were in the Italian home page of AOL. I see to open a
>>> windows by toolsicuro.com I click on 'yes'. But the program do not
>>> start lol I am happy to use Linux :-)
>>>
>>>
>> If we're collecting stories:
>>
>> I was looking for some icons the other day. When I visited some page, a
>> popup window appeared and told my that my machine maybe was infected
>> and asked if I wanted to do an online virus check. It offered "Cancel"
>> and "Ok". Obviously I selected "Cancel", but the thing started its scan
>> anyway and searched my entire C: drive, C:\Windows and all. In the end,
>> it told me that it had found a virus somewhere in
>> C:\Windows\System32\... and that I could d/l a tool to remove the
>> virus.
>>
>> Odd, on a Kubuntu 7.04 based system ;-)
>>
>>
>
> Not odd on any system. I heard of a site that offers a file for Mac,
> then tells Mac users that they need to download a codec to view it. If
> they download the "codec," they get malware installed and have betrayed
> their password to the villains.

From the earliest days of Usenet: "If it's spam, it's a scam!"
You'd think that people could generalize that to recognize that any
unexpected Web popup that announces that your machine has a virus, and
offers to "remove" it is a trap.