Screenshot from my visit to the IE Antivirus Free Scanner Web Page:

Can you spot what’s not right with this picture?  The answer is found in the red-boxed text.

Somehow they managed to identify my Operating System as Windows, when my Browser information says I’m on Linux.

Now keep in mind that your Operating System is part of the information transmitted by your web browser when connecting to a web site.

Things that make you go H’m!

Stay tuned more to follow of this particular scam.

The Internet has brought us many joys. It’s rewritten the rules of business and pleasure.

And pain. For it allows what may have seemed like bright ideas at the time (’let’s use it to make sure our customers have the latest software’, for example) to turn into a stinking pit of misery — usually, but by no means always, after marketing gets its fangs in.

Here are just ten of the guilty parties who try to do the impossible: to make us hate the internet and wish it had never been invented — and who very nearly succeed. -

Calls on Senate for civil penalties