• Don’t click those pop-ups that say you’ve been infected!

    Posted on May 31, 2021 at 01:03 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

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    Brian Livingston

    By Brian Livingston

    It’s been said before, but it bears repeating — when you see a pop-up window on your desktop, laptop, or smartphone screen that says you’ve been infected with a virus and must act immediately, don’t click it!

    These frightening warnings are invariably “bad ads” that use advertising networks to insert these pop-ups into websites and phone networks. Their goal is to get you to click a link and download malware, whether it’s a fake “antivirus program,” a malicious “virtual private network,” or some other backdoor into your personal life.

    Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.20.0 (2021-05-31).

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