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____/ Robin T Cox on Tuesday 15 Sep 2009 16:43 : \____
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:19:57 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> New York Times tricked into serving scareware ad
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>> | Scammers tricked the New York Times' Digital Advertising department
>> | into placing a malicious ad for fake antivirus software on the
>> | NYTimes.com Web site over the weekend, the company confirmed
>> | Monday.
>> | The newspaper had warned of the scam advertisement Sunday, after
>> | receiving about 100 e-mails from concerned readers.
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>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138038/New_York_Times_tricked_into_serving_scareware_ad
>>
>> What to Do If You Saw an âAntivirusâ Pop-Up Ad
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>> | A screen shot of the pop-up window that appears as if it is
>> | scanning for viruses.
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>> http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/what-to-do-if-you-saw-an-antivirus-pop-up-ad/?hp
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>> Three out of four administrators don't trust anti-virus software
>>
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>> | In a recent study, a total of 226 administrators, CIOs and security
>> | specialists were asked what they thought of signature and
>> | blacklist-based solutions. Three out of four administrators
>> | consider signature-based enterprise anti-virus protection
>> | unreliable. For zero day attacks in particular, two thirds of the
>> | administrators surveyed did not believe that standard anti-virus
>> | products helped to prevent attacks.
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>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/145291
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>>
>> Related:
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>> Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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>> | The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
>> | in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
>> |
>> | The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very
>> concerned"
>> | about the growth in "phishing".
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>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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> There's also a useful 'guide to scareware protection' here:
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4297&tag=nl.e589
goodbye-microsoft.com has a guide to permanent solution (Debian)
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