On 28 maj 2011, at 01.23, Nathan Sims wrote: > I don't know how, but one of my Safari tabs took over Safari. It popped up a > dialog box with the text: > > "http://1781.7.162.165 > Caution! Your computer contains a variety of > suspicious programs. Your System requires immediate > checking! The system will perform a fast and free > check of your PC for malicious programs." > > Then there is the OK button, begging to be clicked. > > I can't do anything with Safari because of the modal dialog box, it just > beeps at me. Looks like I'll have to force-quit it. Shame that a single > dialog box can take over a multithreaded, multiwindow, multitab application. > It's quite an Achilles heal. I've got 11 windows up, each with about 15 tabs. > > Is there any way to analyze this thing before I force-quit? >
I would think and do:.../ Just press OK or Cancel and take it from there. This crap is aimed at Windows and it even says 'PC'. The stuff is likely a scam to fool some to cash up for some scam anti malware bogus. Since it is harmless to OS X if it is what I think it is, you can study it in any way you find interesting but never ever give away your admin password in a session like this. I'm sure you know this but I had to say it anyway. /... But you might not? It is all an estimation of how likely something can be and what are the stakes? I would guess highly unlikely to do any harm on an OS X machine. Most likely a Win then you loose thing. Some social engineering behind it and a few out of many Win users might cash up? // John Stalberg_______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
