Detecting Fake Virus Alerts
You’re surfing along on the web, researching images of algae… That should be safe as milk, right? Yes, so long as you know when you’re being scammed. This video shows an example of how easy it can be to get herded into doing something you don’t want to do.
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I recently got an email from my friend warning about pending doom coming from a computer virus. There’s a copy of it in the blockquote below.