2009-09-19, 08:41 PM
Yeah, I suppose so.
Basically what happened was:
I clicked on a thread about Pirate gear, I was reading through it, when suddenly it redirected me to a page that looks like the "My Computer" page, saying that I got heavily infected with viruses and that I should scan and download an application to help. It freaked me out at first, but then I realized it was a fake, because I looked at my taskbar and the tab for the page still had the Firefox emblem next to the page name, obviously showing it was still on the internet in the Firefox browser. I tried to click 'Cancel' on some of the things it was asking me to do, but they'd just keep popping up. I would try exiting it out, and it wouldn't go away. So like I said above, I opened Task Manager and ended it with "End Task" and it finally was rid of.
While I didn't download or click anything but 'Cancel', in the time it was up, it still got plenty of spyware and a few viruses onto my computer, although those were cleaned up with the anti-viruses. So I'm hoping that the person who created it wasn't smart enough to create a "visit-only keylogger" for that page.
Basically what happened was:
I clicked on a thread about Pirate gear, I was reading through it, when suddenly it redirected me to a page that looks like the "My Computer" page, saying that I got heavily infected with viruses and that I should scan and download an application to help. It freaked me out at first, but then I realized it was a fake, because I looked at my taskbar and the tab for the page still had the Firefox emblem next to the page name, obviously showing it was still on the internet in the Firefox browser. I tried to click 'Cancel' on some of the things it was asking me to do, but they'd just keep popping up. I would try exiting it out, and it wouldn't go away. So like I said above, I opened Task Manager and ended it with "End Task" and it finally was rid of.
While I didn't download or click anything but 'Cancel', in the time it was up, it still got plenty of spyware and a few viruses onto my computer, although those were cleaned up with the anti-viruses. So I'm hoping that the person who created it wasn't smart enough to create a "visit-only keylogger" for that page.