I came across this page as part of some search relevancy testing that I'm doing and I couldn't help but laugh and be scared at the same time. I laughed because this page supposedly scanned my computer and told me that I had several windows viruses but I'm using Ubuntu Linux and I know it is a hoax anyway. But it is scary because they have done a pretty good job of making the screen look like the Windows OS which will probably throw off plenty of people that don't know any better. And what's worse is that they ask you to install some software from their site. It kind of reminds me of when I was playing around with similar pop ups in college I once put a pop up on my web site saying that I had detected a virus and that the user should immediately formate their hard drive to get rid of it. Needless to say one person actually did that and then sent me a nasty email later. :-) Never understimate the ability of people to believe everything they see. Be careful out there kids.
Posted by troutm8 at July 12, 2007 11:02 AM