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Trojans, viruses and scams, oh my  

snarkly71

3/16/2009 2:54 pm
Mar. 8th, 2009 | 10:54 am

omg, what a hysterical conversation with my sister.

She phoned (which normally means she wants to know something about her computer) and was very much avoiding saying anything too directly so I asked what was wrong. She started off with a talking about thinking they had a trojan or something (which made me suspicious, how would she know it was a trojan). Eventually it came out that a web page was popping up whenever they did things, and saying they had infections and to go to a site to download a antivirus... you know the type.

I explained what it was, a fake web page caused by a scam, and they must have clicked yes to something and then it came out. Her husband had been visiting "adult" sites (hence her phoning as he was too embarrased too) and it had come up and the rest was history.

I did manage to explain calmly about these things and about fake codec's on adult videos, etc, etc, before I got off the phone and collapsed in giggles.

God, I can just imagine the tension in that house at the moment between the two of them. I shouldn't laugh but...

It will be interesting next time I see them, hehe.

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