http://blog.askbillfirst.com/2009/10/19/fake-security-software-in-millions-of-computers-symantec-by-reuters-yahoo-tech/ by Bill Jimenez Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:27:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.askbillfirst.com/2009/10/19/fake-security-software-in-millions-of-computers-symantec-by-reuters-yahoo-tech/#comment-219 Geek Squeaks’ of the Week (#33) « What's On My PC Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:12:31 +0000 http://blog.askbillfirst.com/?p=529#comment-219 [...] AskBillFirst Fake security software in millions of computers: Symantec by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech [...] [...] AskBillFirst Fake security software in millions of computers: Symantec by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech [...]

]]> http://blog.askbillfirst.com/2009/10/19/fake-security-software-in-millions-of-computers-symantec-by-reuters-yahoo-tech/#comment-214 wjimenez275 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:43:55 +0000 http://blog.askbillfirst.com/?p=529#comment-214 So true. I work with a lot of individuals who are great at what they do but aren't that educated (though I'm working on that) when it comes to computer use and they are easily fooled by these pop-up messages. They look very legitimate so it's easy to be fooled. So true. I work with a lot of individuals who are great at what they do but aren’t that educated (though I’m working on that) when it comes to computer use and they are easily fooled by these pop-up messages. They look very legitimate so it’s easy to be fooled.

]]> http://blog.askbillfirst.com/2009/10/19/fake-security-software-in-millions-of-computers-symantec-by-reuters-yahoo-tech/#comment-213 Nikki Brown Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:43:36 +0000 http://blog.askbillfirst.com/?p=529#comment-213 My husband is a computer consultant and we are seeing this problem more and more. It really angers me when innocent people including the elderly are duped like this. They click on those dire warnings into doing what they think is the right thing to protect their computer and wind up getting huge charges on their credit card or tons of malware dumped onto their computer. My husband is a computer consultant and we are seeing this problem more and more. It really angers me when innocent people including the elderly are duped like this. They click on those dire warnings into doing what they think is the right thing to protect their computer and wind up getting huge charges on their credit card or tons of malware dumped onto their computer.

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