Nigerian prince meets paranoia princess
While I was innocently using Google's image search function to remember how P.Arquette looked like when she was younger, within opening the first five or so images in tabs, a "system warning"(*) of "my own virus scanner" (**) alerted me to immediately check because some "malicious virii/worms were invading my machine"!(***)
The scan ran quickly! It found several infected files on my hard disk! Conveniently it secretly attempted to start a download in the background!
That I interrupted, because my browser doesn't accept automated downloads.
And then there's the fact that I'm on a mac.
And the "found" malware was displayed on Windows folders.
It sure looked convincing, though, blinking and computing, I'll give it that. Be careful what you click when you're on a PC (although I hope it's a given to be sceptical with messages like that; no-one answers the money-shiffling Nigerian prince either, right?). Don't trust a pop-up window just because it tells you to trust it. Old news, I know, but I thought this one was cleverly made. Pictures as clickable thumbnails below.
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There he is!
(*) first point to get suspicious; (**) don't have one; (***) it was actually right, but fortunately .exe files don't work on a mac unless you open it in an extra installed PC/Win environment.
The scan ran quickly! It found several infected files on my hard disk! Conveniently it secretly attempted to start a download in the background!
That I interrupted, because my browser doesn't accept automated downloads.
And then there's the fact that I'm on a mac.
And the "found" malware was displayed on Windows folders.
It sure looked convincing, though, blinking and computing, I'll give it that. Be careful what you click when you're on a PC (although I hope it's a given to be sceptical with messages like that; no-one answers the money-shiffling Nigerian prince either, right?). Don't trust a pop-up window just because it tells you to trust it. Old news, I know, but I thought this one was cleverly made. Pictures as clickable thumbnails below.
,
There he is!
(*) first point to get suspicious; (**) don't have one; (***) it was actually right, but fortunately .exe files don't work on a mac unless you open it in an extra installed PC/Win environment.