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To: Cindy

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


2 posted on 12/11/2009 3:27:06 PM PST by Uncle Miltie (America, 1776 - 2009. R.I.P.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
Happened to my wife a couple of days ago. Fortunately, she called me before doing anything. We have one Windows laptop in the house, and she was surfing the net. A popup Window said "you have 365 viruses and 92 Trojans."

The tricky part was that closing the window activated another popup window. I force closed Firefox and ran Adaware. It showed one trojan that was downloaded approximately the time she hit the site with the popup ad.

One thing I found out was that legitimate sites can have these things if they work with a third party ad agency. The script for the popup is in the ad.

20 posted on 12/11/2009 4:12:23 PM PST by Richard Kimball (We're all criminals. They just haven't figured out what some of us have done yet.)
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