Virus Failure "Infected"

[Hyper-Threaded]

I was looking at google images and click one and went to a webpage that tried to copy the my computer page in XP, And it said Microsoft security and "This computer is infected" And it had red bars under all the drives "scanning" for viruses. And it was coming up with "Infected programs" that were Win32 and other system components. And if you looked in the address bar it said you were at some random website. FAIL I feel bad if someone clicked "kill virus" and wrecked there computer.

 

[voyagerfan99]

I get infections like that on customer's machines all the time. You'd be surprised how many people fall for it.

And when you surf with the right protection (Firefox and AdBlock Plus) you don't even come across those hardly ever.

 

[Cromewell]

An unbelieveable amount of people fall for this. I work for a supposedly "tech-smart" company and I've had to clean viruses aquired from fake virus scanners from peoples machines here (just people I work with, I'm not desktop support )

 

[Hyper-Threaded]

I have add block and it still came up, who cares all long as you dont click on anything your ok.

 

[animostical]

Ya that is like the number one thing i tell people to look for. And do not click "Fix Virus"...

 

[Hyper-Threaded]

Run your anti-virus program & see what it detects. That popup window wasn't from internet explorer ...

Ahh I have none just a firewall. So I might still have a virus? Ive seen nothing so far.

 

[voyagerfan99]

They're just pop-ups. You have to do a decent amount of clicking for you to actually have it install.

 

[kurby]

Is it allowing you to run executable programs?