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Warning - Fake ADOBE message



Barham's tash

Well-known member
Jun 8, 2013
3,612
Rayners Lane
Morning all,

The following started happening last night when viewing random pages on here. It stated randomly directing me to the following page and asking me to install an Adobe setup.exe file.

Clearly i'm not stupid enough to do it on the basis that I already use Adobe reader and it has a built in update facility this is clearly some kind of malware.

Adobe malware.png
 












skipper734

Registered ruffian
Aug 9, 2008
9,189
Curdridge
This was happening on here about a month or two ago. Spy bot is defending me. (I hope)
 


glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
my firefox has been playing up a bit, so I have deleted adobe and now its OK


thanks
 


Gilliver's Travels

Peripatetic
Jul 5, 2003
2,916
Brighton Marina Village
I'm always amazed that the idiots who pollute the web with this sort of crap, while presumably possessing a modicum of tech ability, don't have the wit to get a native English speaker* to run the rule over their [thankfully] weird compositions.

They may well nick official corporate logos and retain one or two legit links. But the language always gives the game away.

With faultlessly worded English they would surely catch a lot more punters. And that could be very worrying indeed...




*My rates are very reasonable.
 
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£1.99

Well-known member
Mar 3, 2008
1,188
Sorry to be thick here but what are the signs on your computer if you have the malware?
 



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