Scareware on Newsweek

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[b]Scareware on Newsweek [/b]

A friend e-mailed to say that he was hit by one of those fake anti-malware scans when surfing on newsweek.com. He sent me screen shots, some of which are below (click on the thumbnail to see the full-size screen). There’s a million of these out there of course, but this one caught my attention as being especially egregious for a few reasons.

http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2009/09/scareware_on_newsweek.php

The advancedpcscanner6.com site is blocked by hpHosts HOSTS file for me.

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no problem for me browsing newsweek.com, kenny.

may be it is fixed now.

tried it on vm.

edit: it was on sept 05

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advancedpcscanner6.com is also blocked by firefox

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actually here(India) it is not loading. opendns says the server failed to load.