malware and scams

[darkoshi]

I got a small fright today when a message popped up on my work computer. It seemed similar to the trojan that I had cleaned off of Forestfen's computer last weekend. It then brought up an artfully disguised browser page. I recognized it as malware-related right away, but wasn't sure if it had already somehow managed to infect the computer. Thankfully it didn't seem to get further than the browser screens (it had popped up while I was googling for info on SQL Server). I disconnected from the network right away, took some photos, and closed all my browsers. I did a full scan later, which found nothing.







Apparently scammers are now also calling people up on the telephone pretending to be with Microsoft and trying to scare them into thinking that their computer is infected.