| Date: November 13, 2009 permalink
From: Marianne Weidlein <aimari@[Protected]>
Hi - I just clicked on something on Facebook, and got a notice that
my system has been infected with some viruses. I clicked "Start
Protection", which gives me a window that says, "You have chosen to
open setup.exe, and MS - DOS Executable. Now Firefox wants to know
what to do with it, asking if I want to "Save the file", or "Open
with" and asks me to Choose an application.
This is my first encounter with this, and I don't know if it's fake
or real, and if real I don't know which application to choose. If you
know, can you email me directly at aimari@[Protected] asap?
Thank you sooooo much!
Marianne
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| Date: November 13, 2009 permalink
From: Doug Gentry <doug@[Protected]>
Marianne -
I'm going to send this directly to you but also copy the list, so that
we can compare notes.
I would do nothing. I believe what you saw on Facebook was an
advertisement - or perhaps a link to another page which has the ad.
Facebook, as a web site/service, for all practical purposes, has no
way to scan your computer for virsuses (virii?). And the setup.exe
is a Windows program which, if run on a Windows machine, might put in
a faux virus protection software that is really spyware or something
else ugly.
....Doug Gentry
On Nov 13, 2009, at 7:31 AM, Marianne Weidlein wrote:
> Hi - I just clicked on something on Facebook, and got a notice that
> my system has been infected with some viruses. I clicked "Start
> Protection", which gives me a window that says, "You have chosen to
> open setup.exe, and MS - DOS Executable. Now Firefox wants to know
> what to do with it, asking if I want to "Save the file", or "Open
> with" and asks me to Choose an application.
>
> This is my first encounter with this, and I don't know if it's fake
> or real, and if real I don't know which application to choose. If
> you know, can you email me directly at aimari@[Protected] asap?
>
> Thank you sooooo much!
>
> Marianne
>
>
>
>
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Doug Gentry
Dynapolis & Southern Oregon University
p: 541-261-8501 / Toll Free: 866-890-6013
doug@[Protected]
www.dynapolis.com - blog: www.plain-sense.com
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