There is a fake FireFox update doing the rounds:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100728/tc_zd/253167
Would you buy a flash player from this man? :D
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There is a fake FireFox update doing the rounds:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/20100728/tc_zd/253167
Would you buy a flash player from this man? :D
At first, I thought maybe there was an evilgrade module for it. It is amazing how much money there is in rogue AV software. I saw a report today saying that most people don't even try to contest the fraudulent charges...
Well, I suppose they were sucked in to start with and don't know it?Quote:
I saw a report today saying that most people don't even try to contest the fraudulent charges...
I guess there is a case for licences for paid AV vendors?
ggrrr why'd they blur out the url bar.
me keeps diggin..
this is actually devilishly clever. Despicable, but clever.
It's been done a few times in the past, people even go as far as submitting corrupt "Addons" and because when a developer submits an addon it automatically is allowed to be downloaded by users, but it carries a Warning message on the addon's description page, then once it's reviewed by the mozz dev's if it's found to be a "Corrupt" addon it get's removed straightaway, if it's clean then the warning message get's removed from the description page.
So the Attackers get a few hours/days to get there addon installed by as many "Victims" as they can get to install it before the addon get's pulled.
Turns out the url "Was" hxxp://www.newfirefoxonline.com :p
I guess that is one of the "beauties" of open source..............it is based on trust?....................actually the whole of computing and the internet is as well...............
Shame about the scumbags isn't it? :mad:
Things have changed one hell of a lot since I wrote my first program in 1970:eek:
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What was the program Johnno? 1970.... punch cards would of been involved?
Yes, 80 column punched cards.............you submitted your job deck and waited 3 days to see what happened? :D
The first program was converting Fahrenheit/Centigrade, and the next one was all prime numbers up to 10,000.............
No "Hello World" back then :cool:
When you submitted the deck, what was done with it? Was it put into some special machine?
What happened if there was a mistake? Would you need to start from scratch and try with a new batch of cards?
was the 3 day waiting period due to low spec input machine, or due to the que being so long?