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Public Service Announcement #3

If you see a pop-up from a program calling itself either Antivirus XP 2008 or Antivirus XP 2009 warning you that your PC is infected, ignore it.  Don’t click on it.  And by all means, don’t shell out $50 for the software.  It’s “scareware” — a fake program originating from Russia.  Give them your credit card info for the software and they’ll steal your identity.

Here’s a screen capture, courtesy of the NY Times.  And here’s the article itself.

In case you’re interested, here are PSA numbers 1 and 2.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on October 30, 2008 (boomark / email).