News of a new virus, called “Facebook Fan Check Virus”, is sending a lot of people to Google to search for information, and those searches are leading them right into hacker traps. Click on one of those websites and the most likely result is that you’ll download scareware, an urgent notice that your PC has been infected. This is accompanied by an offer to pay $30 or so to download the anti-virus software that fixes the problem.
Graham Cluley has an excellent post on this development in his Sophos blog. Rather than give you excerpts, I recommend that you read the complete article. It’s the best way to get the information you need. The source is safe and knowledgeable.
Scareware is big business. Don’t click on those urgent warnings. Carefully close the window by clicking on the X in the upper right or left corner.
And protect your PC with enterprise grade security software.
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