On 16 Sep 2010 at 6:27, John Hornbuckle wrote: > What happens is that they go to some website that pops up a browser > window that´s designed to look like the window of an antivirus app. They > actually do a pretty good job-it can fool the average user easily. Anyhow, > the animation in the window tells them they´re infected and to "click here" > to clean the virus, and when they click there it downloads an EXE that > plants the malware on their system.
Most of these popups are hard-coded to look like the standard XP theme, so one of the simplest techniques to fight these malware popups is to change your XP theme from the standard XP theme to Windows Classic. I use that theme whenever I log in with an Admin-level account, it reminds me that I'm an administrator. -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-895-3270 Security Blog: http://geoapps.com/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
