[Uncle Miltie]

This sounds “fishy”. I’m sending it to Flag@whitehouse.gov.

[Gaffer]

When the Federal Government and the rest of the world start treating the criminals who promulgate these malicious codes to the rest of the world by EXECUTING THEM, the sooner they will stop. This ‘malicious’ term needs to be called the spade that it really is; a case can be made for many instances of it as being an offense equal to causing actions and consequences on the same scale as murder..

[elpinta]

“Downloading the software could result in viruses, malicious software called Trojans, and/or keyloggers—hardware that records passwords and sensitive data—being installed on your computer.”

A download that can install hardware, not THAT is cool and creative!

[John W]

The FBI is all over it. Freeper experts, how long has this exact item they describe been around?

[Bigg Red]

I had one of these pop-ups recently while I was on Facebook.

[Seizethecarp]

I have been seeing this for what seems like at least two years. When they pop up, I don't attempt to close it (I think that just activates it even more). The FBI doesn't tell you what to do when this happens. I click the Start button and do a restart, then an anti-virus rescan.

It seems that the bad guys keep making little modification that can get past McAfee and Microsoft Security Essentials that I have had as protection.

[GloriaJane]

A warning about something like that came out about a month or two ago from I think, ZDNET maybe. Anyway, it suggested not clicking on anything and just x ing out of your browser altogether because it said clicking on any part of the pop up could start a download to your computer of a virus.

I had one pop up on me when I was on myspace last week or so, and I took ZDNET’s advice and x ed out of my browser and then brought it back up and I was ok doing that.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/tips/index.html
“Cyber Security Tips”

[Carley]

Had this a couple of times last month. Had to shut down the entire computer. When re-booting all was well.

[Kakaze]

My daughter in law got into this last week...........It infected almost every file on this, the "public" computer here at the house.

Before anyone at Christmas touches a computer or electronic system I am having one hell of a family meeting.

[MarkL]

If you happen to get one of these unwanted "pop-ups," the safest thing to do is open your task manager (usually by hitting "Control-Alt-Delete") and ending the web browser program. It's a pain, but I've seen cases where these pop-ups are NOT regular windows pop-ups, and trying to close them will actually trigger them. You will, however, lose ALL your browser windows, but it's the safest thing to do.

Mark

[LibFreeOrDie]

I had this happen to a laptop a few months ago. Even though I recognized it as malware and tried to close down, it infected my machine. It prevents you from connecting to good security software sites that offer free malware cleaners. It also used my email address book to spam.

McAfee didn’t catch it. The laptop was totally hosed.

I’m using Kaspersky now. So far, so good...

[diefree]

I had it. Couldn’t get rid of it. I went to a geek site and someone said to remove the Yahoo toolbar. I did that and I haven’t had a problem with it since.

[Eye of Unk]

I fear what the future may require is having cheap disposable hard drives, when your files get corrupted you will have to toss them out immediately.

I have three computers lying around that are in running order but have so many software glitches I was forced to stop using them and I just bought another puter.

My old Win 98, a recent XP and this POS Vista that is really pissing me off, my wife just bought a Black friday steal of a puter with Windows 7 and I am so envious.

I stopped trying to buy all the best firewalls and crap, when its get bad I just stop using it and buy another puter, they go obsolete in 9 months or less anyway.

[Cindy]

blog:

http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2010/03/scareware-sinowal-client-side-exploits.html

FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 2010
“Scareware, Sinowal, Client-Side Exploits Serving Spam Campaign in the Wild”
Posted by Dancho Danchev

SNIPPET: “AS50215 Troyak-as customers are back, with an ugly mix of scareware, sinowal, and client-side exploits serving campaign using the “You don’t have the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player” theme. Quality assurance is also in place this time, with the client-side exploit serving domains using a well known “function nerot” obfuscation technique in an attempt to bypass link scanners.

Let’s dissect the campaign, list all the typosquatted and spamvertised domains, the client-side exploit serving iFrames and the actual scareware.”