Thursday, March 17, 2016

Misspelled URL can give Apple users Virus – Metro

There are over 300 addresses ending in .if registered, enter technology site idg.se . Among other “netflix.om” “reddit.om” and “facebookc.om”. The idea is that the user must slip on the keys and get into the page by mistake.

Once you are on the site, you should also download a program and install, the “netflix.om” is designed as an update of the Flash player.

– you make a page that looks just right right out and say “downloading this thing.” There is not any stranger than that. This time they have chosen to deliver something for those running OS X, meaning those who have the Mac, says security expert Jakob Schlyter.

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the users suffer from this time is a program that spreads advertisements, called adware. The program can be stopped, for example, using virus software.

The procedure which records the sites with addresses that are similar to popular sites is not new. Although Colombia’s .co TLD has been used for the same.

– When these TLDs suffer so you usually quick to act. When someone discovers that there is such a paypal.mo you discover it and so it is blocking it, says Jakob Schlyter.

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the best thing you can do to protect yourself against these kinds of programs is not to ignore the warnings you get back on your computer.

– We write wrong sometimes and slips, but you should not ignore warnings. Your bank will, for example, never ask you to install a software, says Jakob Schlyter.

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