What's the point?
● Computers/Internet are a huge part of our lives– A place to store our family photos– A way to pay bills– A place to purchase products– Source of information – Means to communicate with family and friends– Provides tutorials and games for children and grandchildren– Movies– Music– etc
The people creating viruses, malware, adware, are more sophisticated than ever.
The majority of the time, the reason your Anti-Virus software doesn't filter these malitious acts is
because you are actually giving these viruses permission to install themselves on your
computers.
The way it happens....You are actually tricked into thinking that you
already have a virus on your computer...
...when in fact you don't.
But basically....it is just a webpage.
In fact, it is a giant “OK” box.
No matter where you touch it, you are saying OK.
But if you click anywhere on the box, even the red “X”, you have just hit a giant “OK” button.
You have now allowed the bad guys to do whatever they want to your computer.
You just told your Anti-Virus program that this program is OK to be installed on your computer.
Your computer just became infected with the “Rogue” Anti-Virus program.
(A Fake Anti-Virus Program)
Now your computer really is infected.
Before, it was just a picture, but now that you have clicked on the web page,
you are actually infected.
Your computer is a mess.
The next time you reboot your computer, you will start getting pop ups saying that you need to fix
your computer.
If you allow the “scan” or the “fix” on your computer,
you will be told that your computer cannot be fixed since you don't have a registered version.
What they are after is your credit card number, and if you give it to them, you will have all kinds of
charges.
The charges come from Nigeria, Russia, etc..
The longer you leave the virus on your computer, and try to work around the pop ups, the more
damage it will do. The virus will continue to load programs on your computer like “Optimizer Pro”,
fake registry cleaners, fake “My PC Back Up” cleaners.
You will constantly get messages telling you to back up your computer, clean your computer, and
that you have a virus on your computer.
The next thing you know your computer will come to an absolute crawl.
So, slow that you will hardly be able to type, because the keystrokes take so long to show up
on the screen.
How do you prevent this?
When you see a message on your computer telling you that something is wrong, think twice!!!
Instead of clicking anywhere on the button/webpage, you should immediately turn off
your computer.
That will kill the process.
When you reboot, you should be fine, because you didn't touch the window. You didn't give the
virus permission to install on your computer.
Good Habits
Don't click on links in emails. Even those from friends.
Don't click on links within web pages. Go specifically to the web page you want to go to.
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