[ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: here's a warning...
- From: Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Medusas Mom <medusasmom1@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:16:33 -0500
Thanks... Seriously - I have a pop up blocker that works very well
most of the time. I know these things are just "phishing" for more
info, which is why I never answer them...this one was a bit of a shock,
tho, because of the references to porn and adult sites! I'm not an
innocent, by any means, but it did really take me by surprise. I
thought it might do the same for someone else.
P
Medusas Mom wrote:
> Peggy,
> They refer to that as "phishing" where you click on a site and two or
> so others pop up to make you think you are entering your info in the
> original site you clicked.Nearly all sites now have a report phishing
> area to report these to.Just remember to look in the address bar to
> see you are in the site you want to be before entering any
> information.
> Medusasmom
>
> On 2/10/07, Peggy <pmick12@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The wierdest thing just happened to me..........consider this a warning!
>> I went to Google to look for a funny gif...what popped up was an offer
>> to clean my hard drive of all the porn i have put on it.
>> That was very strange, since I have never been to any kind of porn site,
>> not even by accident! While I was looking at the pop up, it changed
>> and there was an
>> offer to scan my computer for these "adult" sites...I clicked No. It
>> came right back immediately saying it had detected over 600 porn
>> pictures
>> on my computer..........this was after I had clicked No. First of
>> all...there wasn't time for it to scan anything, never mind that it
>> found 600 porn pictures...there aren't even 600 dog pictures on here,
>> and that's what almost all my pictures are...dogs!
>> So, I deleted it and got off google.
>> I should have noted the name of who or what was making the
>> offer...but I couldn't wait to get it off my screen...
>>
>> My computer automatically runs a full deep scan every week...and I ran a
>> quick scan last night too, while I was using the computer, just for the
>> heck of it. In addition to that, I have two different spyware
>> detectors, and ran both those programs last nite, too...in any case, I'm
>> pretty confident that there's nothing on this computer that shouldn't be
>> here...
>> so I guess that offer to scan my computer was something
>> bad............consider this a warning....if you get a pop-up offering
>> to scan your computer for some kind of site you've never been to, be
>> careful--who knows what that site is doing to your computer. Don't
>> click yes...whatever you do. I'm going to have to run a deep scan again
>> now, along with both the spyware programs....because I don't know where
>> that pop-up came from or what it may have left here...
>> This isn't a joke...I don't even usually get pop-ups, so this was
>> pretty strange from the get-go!
>> Peggy
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