There I was, looking at the "Pictures of the Week" on a very prominent news web site whose identity shall remain a secret (wasn't that a peacock?), mining my own business, when all of a sudden this pop up appears out of nowhere (isn't that where they all come from?). This pop up had a bright red alert notice plastered across the top (yea, that is a picture of it). Microsoft Security Essentials Alert trojan was telling me that I had a 'severe' virus and I need to download this virus remover to take care of it.
Since "Microsoft" and "Essentials" sounded familiar I almost fell for it. It had totally locked up my computer and would not let me go anywhere. So how do I get help now? Who do I call to bail me out at 10:00 at night?
Then it hit me! I have a browser on my Droid phone! Yep I searched the internet and found help. First I confirmed my suspicion that this was not real, and found a simple solution to fix it.
If you see something that looks like this picture...run, don't walk, away as fast as you can. Yep ya gotta love this technology!!
So what did you do. Turn the computer off?
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