[pchelpers] Re: Watch out for Stop Sign

John Durham wrote:

>While scanning the news feeds this morning, I came across a dangerous one.
>http://www.stop-sign.com/se/se062.php?n=s_gg_anti_attack&kw=gg_anti_attack_3_182_ct_trojan%20horse%20anti%20virus&pg=%26se_spin&ver=online
>
>This looks like a legitimate commercial venture, but from personal experience 
>I can tell you the products distributed under this name in the past are loaded 
>with spyware. It may be that advertising it through a news feed is an attempt 
>to add legitimacy to their activities. The moral of this is:Be very careful 
>about what you read.
>  
>
I saw the ad on TV about Stop Sign. So that night I went to their 
website and as soon as i hit the site
AVG jumped up warning me that they were trying to install a virus on my 
computer. Now every computer
that comes in that has Stop Sign I tell them about it.

Pc


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