I was looking for a recipe on the 'net this afternoon and as I went to close out my browser I got a pop up window that said "Warning, your computer is infected!" And it claimed to be Windows XP Antivirus 2008. When I tried to close the window without installing it tried to install the software anyway. I hurriedly turned the computer off.
McAffee is running on it now, just to make sure, but I think I caught it. This is the evil virus I was talking about. It's not an anti-virus program like it is claiming to be.
Unfortunately, most people don't know that and they immediately click on the "Remove all threats now" button.
So word to the wise, don't visit web sites you don't know and don't trust anything that tries to download automatically.
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