fake virus pages

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What should one do with fake annoying virus pages that make you think that
you are being infected with worms and viruses and must take immediate action
and purchase?
 
From: "Tim923" <[email protected]>

| What should one do with fake annoying virus pages that make you think that
| you are being infected with worms and viruses and must take immediate action
| and purchase?


Close them and don't visit them again.

You can also report the URLs to us and we will make sure they are detected and blocked
through various software and methods once they are indentified.

If you do, just make sure you obfuscate the URL such as....

hxxp://bad_site.com
or
h**p://bad_site.com
 
Tim923 said:
What should one do with fake annoying virus pages ...
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Add their domains to your hosts file.

127.0.0.1 gotomyprotectedzone.com
127.0.0.1 limestee.net
127.0.0.1 windows-protectonline.net
127.0.0.1 onlinesecurescan.com

etc.
 
Close them and don't visit them again.

My mom had to give up and reboot the computer as she couldn't get the
warning boxes and pop-ups to go away.

What are the pages after anyways? Is there an antivirus program they want
you to buy, steal a credit card number, or buy a product, or just get money?
 
Tim923 said:
My mom had to give up and reboot the computer as she couldn't
get the warning boxes and pop-ups to go away.
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It's fun ain't it?

Unplug the computer's network connection next time it happens. Then you
can close all the nasty windows.
 
Tim923 said:
My mom had to give up and reboot the computer as she couldn't get the
warning boxes and pop-ups to go away.

What are the pages after anyways? Is there an antivirus program they want
you to buy, steal a credit card number, or buy a product, or just get
money?
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You can usually close them with Task Manager.
 
Tim923 said:
What should one do with fake annoying virus pages that make you think
that you are being infected with worms and viruses and must take
immediate action and purchase?
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Using Ctrl-F4 closes the window for me. It's quicker than going to the Task
Manager and/or disconnecting from the Internet.
I am using Win2000Pro.
Buffalo
PS: Anyone have anything against doing it this way? It seems to be
effective.
 
Buffalo said:
Using Ctrl-F4 closes the window for me. It's quicker than going to the Task
Manager and/or disconnecting from the Internet.
I am using Win2000Pro.
Buffalo
PS: Anyone have anything against doing it this way? It seems to be
effective.
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If your mission is to accept whatever a site offers and only then decide
what to do about it, sure [ctrl] [f4] can whack it. Or... you can
configure your browser (your escort to the net) to not request or allow
such data. And as a consideration, maybe not visit sites that exhibit
that behavior, I mean if there were a store in your town where the
salespersons were always getting in your face to try for a sale, how
inclined would you be to shop there?
I use a hardened Opera v10 to browse and only if a site seems truly
interesting, yet unresponsive, I'll run it sandboxed with everything
enabled. That's got to be frustrating to the hot shot (shit) webmasters
and if more folk adopted my methods they'd be looking for work.
 
Lil' Abner said:
Nope. Like you say, it's the quickest way out. I always used ALT-F4
and figured that's what you meant, but I see now that either will
work. :-)
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Thanks, I did mean Alt-F4 but I just tried Ctrl-F4 and it also worked. Go
figure.
Buffalo
 
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