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Watch out! Don't fall for this, don't click on the "OK" button: The "virus scanner" is the actual virus!!!!
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TOPIC: Watch out! Don't fall for this, don't click on the "OK" button: The "virus scanner" is the actual virus!!!!
Watch out! Don't fall for this, don't click on the "OK" button: The "virus scanner" is the actual virus!!!! 1 year, 2 months ago #132
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I thought I would come here and let everyone know about a virus threat that seems to be already very spread all over the Internet. It's a virus that tries to make you believe it's your antivirus scanning your computer and telling you it has been infected. I have been in that situation for the third time a few days ago. I was doing a search in Google images when I clicked on one of the pictures. Suddenly I was redirected to a page that looked like my hard drive's folders, with an animation of a fake antivirus scanning my computer. I took a printscreen of what I saw so I could show it here:
 What you see is not my hard drive (I don't even have a Floppy Disk Drive (A:) since my computer is not that old). What you see is actually a website infected with a virus that disguises itself as an antivirus. If you try to close that webpage a popup window will display this message: "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? Your computer is infected! They can cause data lost and file corruption and need to be treat as soon as possible. Press CANCEL to prevent it. Return to System Security and download it secure to your PC. Press OK to continue, or Cancel to stay on the current page". Don't fall for it!!! What they want you to do is to click on "OK" to let an executable file, which is the real virus, run and ruin your computer. In my case it was the file pack.exe. If you try to get rid of that window by clicking on "Cancel" the same window will popup again. The only way out is going Crtl + Alt + Del and close the browser, but before doing that, please, copy the URL from the address bar, on top of that page. For instance, do you see the printscreen above? the URL is http://91.216.122.211/index.phpwww.google.com/safebrowsing/report_badware/ Once I reported it I went back to that page and saw the animation and the virus were not there anymore. Actually the page just showed "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". It seems like Google takes reports very seriously and fixes the problem right away. For more information about this kind of threats, please, visit the website: www.stopbadware.org/ Did anyone here happen to find this fake "antivirus" experience? If so, what did you do? |
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