Hi all - excuse the off-topic post but I'm both amused and annoyed by
this and somebody out there might know if there is anything to be done
to nail these fraudulent bastards.
I was browsing the web almost randomly this morning looking for info on
a particular topic (not porn) when suddenly I was greeted by a popup
informing me of errors on my system which I closed. I was then taken to
a site where an online system scanner purported to scan my system
detecting 45 errors. It was obvious that this was a scam rather than a
scan because it showed the scanning of a windows system which, given I
was running Linux at the time, was as phony as .... well, an extremely
phony thing. The whole point of this was to flog me some system
protection software which, if it is as reliable as the online scan is
extremely suspect.
The point is that they are trying to sell this stuff under false
pretences which must violate some statutes somewhere. Is there anywhere
that these people can be reported to in order that their iffy sales
practices can be exposed and ideally, shut them down.
This is the outfit concerned:
http://www.errorsafe.com/
I don't advise going in there while using Winders, there's no telling
what you might pick up.
Anyone know anything about them?
Cheers,
--
Graham Watkins
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. - H. L.
Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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