IE Antivirus | MalwareTeks Blog
MalwareTeks - Home Page
Are You Infected? Are you plagued by pop-ups? Problems with Spyware, Malware?
Are you an Anti-Malware Fighter and would like to contribute?
Dedicated to keeping your PC clean of Scumware, Badware, Spyware, Malware, Viruses and Trojans.


Can You Spot What Is Not Quite Right?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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

Screenshot - IE AntiVirus - Free VirusScanner.png

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.


Content © 2006-2008 MalwareTeks - Every post is the opinion of the author

Creative Commons License
All works are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.

Bad Behavior has blocked 219 access attempts in the last 7 days.