Spamblogs Pushing Rogue Antivirus Programs
Nothing earth-shattering, but worth a mention anyway. I’ve noticed a couple of blogs pushing security blog feeds are also hawking pretend Youtube vids:
When the videos are clicked, you’ll find your browser vanishes down onto the taskbar, replaced by this sitting in the middle of the screen:
Once you click the popup box away, you’re confronted with this:
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…a randomly selected rogue antivirus product. From here on it, any and all attempts to get rid of this page results in an endless barrage of popups, scare tactics ad hilariously lame warning messages (note the first one is called a “Security Update”):
The site to block that’s pimping the fake videos is
thoughtcrime(dot)blogtodo(dot)com
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