Beware of Misleading Advertisements

Beware of advertisements that offer to scan your machine for errors! You may end up with more than you bargained for ...
Clicking on the below ad routes you to "spyshredder-scanner(dot)com" ...

Well let's see if I have any of the above issues or errors ... oops!

Yeah my system "might be at risk!" ... but it looks like it's from visiting your site. As you can see they try to automatically load a ".cab" file while preforming a bogus scan in the background. Then they pop-up another bogus alert that malware has been detected. Fortunately NOD32 has detected the real malware ...

Even if you click the Ignore button spyshredder-scanner still tries to install itself ... which doesn't really surprise me.
Thus another candidate for the HOSTS file.

Published Tue, Sep 11 2007 16:09 by winhelp2002