Monday, July 5, 2010

Anyone who likes Twilight (or if you are just nosey) listen up.

I have not seen Twilight yet (none of the installments) and really have no plans to do so.  Sorry twihards.  I dont get the fascination with vampires as of late.  I kinda blame this on the bad economy.  No one is in a good mood and all of a sudden sexy shirtless dudes drinking blood from a homely girl and fangs seem like a cool thing.  When times were great no one gave a crap about vampires except the goth kids.  Now everyone is a wannabe goth kid.

You can hate me if you want for saying that but I will advise you to not look up anything on the internet regarding the movie, the book or anything.  Its not because I am a hater but it has been discovered that searches on the subject bring up scareware/malware viruses.  Twilight is popular the cyber criminals feel that their stupid viruses can reach a broader audience.   I explain this subject on the main website.  The PC Tools Malware Research Center has discovered a brand new version of the rougue anti-virus software that invades your machine like cooties.  Once you get this virus on your machine its is just about impossible to remove it if you already do not have malware/spyware removal software installed and updated on your machine.  If you don't, and attempt to install it after the fact, the rogue software may prevent it from working properly and the virus may reappear shortly after. I had to deal with this stupid virus a number of times at my regular job.  You do not have to go on any specific sites to get it.  This virus has become so sophisticated that it can now show up in just about any type of website.  Even legit ones.  The makers seem to target what is the hottest topic at the time.  This kind of attack is no longer just a porn site thing.  Everyone is now at risk.  So when you tell your boss that you were not looking at porn sites, you maybe actually telling them the truth.  Just have them refer to this blog for clarification. *wink*  Just tell him or her that you were looking up Twilight which may get you a different kind of "WTF!?!?" look.





Just in case you do not know what it looks like, take a peek here at the photos.  If any of your popups look like this, first I will say "you've been duped" and second I would reccomend that you back up your important files asap (granted you can take getting around all the popup windows.) If left alone, the problem will get worse and the popups will keep reappearing with shorter break times, like labor.




The purpose of the software is to get you to spend money so the "fake viruses" can be removed.  Its just a code you buy to stop the program from popping up on your machine. There may not be anything wrong with your machine (except this of course) but the point is to scare you to think that there is.  Their setup looks just like windows so to the untrained eye, it seems to be legit.

My message is to be careful.  If you do not have a spyware/malware/scareware remover I reccomend Spybot Search and Destroy (just click on the link to go and download.)  There are other programs out there but I highly suggest that you protect yourself against this.  It's a bitch to remove. 

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