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Old 04-25-2009, 07:01 AM  
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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom View Post
I caught that FakeAlert one time on my desktop, I'm assuming that's the one where you constantly get the popup that says your computer is infected and to buy some overpriced virus scanner. I also got it from an image host site, and the worst part is no matter how many times I scanned and removed it, it would keep coming back as soon as I restarted. I eventually had to do a system restore to remove it...
yeah that's what that is - i bet they've made millions with that scam. Pisses me off that nobody in law enforcement ever does shit about this, it wouldn't be that hard to trace who's behind that bogus overpriced virus scanner operation.
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