26.7.08

Wiki-Security?

What the (insert expletive)?  So I was working on a post for the site here and all of a sudden this webpage popped up called antispywaremaster.  I admit to being slightly confused at first; my initial thought was that my Mac wanted to run an anti-spyware program.  That thought last .5 seconds, because it was just weird.  I immediately tried closing all my windows, which wasn't.  My main goal was to make sure whatever I did didn't let this thing download anything to my computer.

I'm not sure if it worked.  Once I recovered, I started looking this spyware up online, just to see what was out there.  A webpage came up that seemed to have info on it.  The page was from a site called Wiki-Security.  It looks like a wikipedia for web security.  I'm very suspicious of the website.  They offered a free download for this anti-antispywaremaster program.  That immediately caught my attention.  I then did a Google search for Wiki-Security, and the site doesn't even come up until the second page of results.  Not only that, but the page I found was for some other virus called Antivirus 2008.  The wording for the entry is almost word for word the same for their anti-antispywaremaster program.  It's possible that this is a legit site, but right now I'm suspicious; I couldn't even get an entry for the site on wikipedia.

I still have some more research to do, but I thought I'd pass that on.  (I should finish the original post I was working on tomorrow.)

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