Scareware scammers Rickroll Digg

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Posted Thursday 12th February 2009 16:46 GMT

1) It's called "duping" or "tricking". Rickrolling is a very specific term for a very general activity.

2) This just reinforces to problems with Web 2.0, as the economist put it "Eat Shit, Millions of flies can't be wrong". Once someone's learnt how to control (or create) the crowd, the whole idea of crowd intelligence collapses.

Anonymous Coward

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Posted Thursday 12th February 2009 20:19 GMT

"Crowd intelligence" is surely a contradiction in terms.

David Wilkinson

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Posted Thursday 12th February 2009 20:19 GMT

You need a program installed that will stop and advise you when you attempt to visit a dangerous website.

You get "rickrolled" or simply mistype a url ... a screen pops up and asks if you really want to go to the site, with links to the reasons why its tagged as dangerous. You have to click "enter anyway" if you want to continue to the reportedly dangerous site.

I use Crawler Web Security Guard Toolbar for this (even though configuring it so its not annoying is very annoying).

The plus side is its free so I can put in on every PC I work on. It really cuts down on infections.

Everyone should be using some program like this.

Anonymous Coward