Rogue Software
by spanky322a - 11/22/09 5:19 PM
In Reply to: The pop-up window that ruined my PC! by Lee Koo (ADMIN)
I had the same experience with the pop-up warning of infected files while reading the NY Times online late one night in September. Don't feel badly--the pop-up also seemed legitimate to thousands of PC users. The Times later apologized online--it allowed the ad to be placed in their online edition, without performing their usual procedure of inspecting for malware. Apparently all of us who allowed the malware to infect their PCs had to perform clean replacements of their hard drive files.

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