Stupid phishers

[worker201]

Seems like a waste to go through all that web programming if you're too lazy to detect that a visitor is using a Mac.  In case someone wasn't convinced that this was a fake, clicking either button in the option box starts a download of an .exe.  I laugh at their fail.

[Lead Head]

I bet it installs those viruses it lists \

[Refalm]

I bet it installs those viruses it lists \

They will even install VirtualPC with Windows XP and trojans pre-installed on your Mac for you.
They're just that good.

[davidnix71]

I went there on my mac, too. Someone on my Yahoo group sent an email with a link to a site that was apparently hijacked. If you tried going there there was a quick redirect to that fake AV. The exe was apparently so new that none of Jotti's online scanners flagged it.

I opened it in hexedit, but didn't find anything I recognized.

The site it redirected to had an expired domain name (a couple of weeks). The original owner was Russian.

[SiMuLaCrUm]

Haha, I love these sites, and the idiotic emails about money that I apparently invested in Africa or something >.<

[davidnix71]

The site is still up, but they have been neutered. The exe file is gone and you can't "buy" the software anymore.

[WMD]

I've had to clean that off of all sorts of computers.  Was a real pain in the ass until the anti-spyware people figured out how to automate it.

It's the new fad in spyware - spyware that claims to detect and remove spyware!

[SiMuLaCrUm]

I've had to clean that off of all sorts of computers.  Was a real pain in the ass until the anti-spyware people figured out how to automate it.

It's the new fad in spyware - spyware that claims to detect and remove spyware!

Oh the irony...

[Lead Head]

I bet it installs those viruses it lists \

They will even install VirtualPC with Windows XP and trojans pre-installed on your Mac for you.
They're just that good.

With the way current things are going, that could be a possibility in the next few years

I've told people to stay away from websites like these, gave them a list of trusted anti-virus software,etc..only to come back and find that they had found a "better program", which just infected the hell out of their computer

[fishcorn]

I remember in high school we were using iMacs and this one kid fell for those fake popup ads that look like Windows windows like three times in a row and I was like, "ur dumb, bro."

[SiMuLaCrUm]

Wow, that's sad >.<

[Aloone_Jonez]

This demonstrates how insecure the default XP theme is, use a different theme and this kind of shit becomes more obvious.

[adiment]

a bit offtopic: I too use the caminofox theme. Does your locationbar go weird when visiting secure sites?  :|

[worker201]

No.  Using version 2.0a1, Firefox 3.1b1.

Actually, depends on what you mean by weird.  Certain sites (eg Bank of America) have large location bar icons that show up.  But I figured that was just a special technique that they're mucking about with.

Like this:


One thing about it that pisses me off is that since getting the most recent update, the favicon for the search bar doesn't show up, which has led to me searching for things in Wikipedia that I wanted to Google.

[WMD]

You mean the green bar?  Only the little square purple thing is the location bar icon.  The rest is the name of the company listed on the SSL certificate, as read and shown by Firefox.  Opera does this too.