Google hoodwinked into pushing Chrome OS scareware
Rogue anti-virus scammers have tainted search results for Chromium OS - the open source version of Google's Chrome OS - in a bid to expose surfers hunting the web operating system to a fake anti-virus scan scam instead. Search terms such as "chromium os download" point to sites featuring scripts that redirect stray surfers …
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Chromium? Really?
OK, target people searching for Twilight, you'll get a million idiot victims. But how many people looking to download the Chromium OS (and, presumably, install it on a VM, or do a tricky USB-based install onto a netbook) are going to fall for this crap?
@Alastair 7
For what it's worth, watching Twilight doesn't make you an idiot. My wife wants to see it, but is hardly stupid - for a female, watching Twilight doesn't make you stupid any more than watching Transformers or The Forbidden Kingdom makes guys stupid.
Watching GI Joe: Rise of Cobra will definitely make you stupid, though - even if you weren't when you showed up.
Pretty sure I got the real one
As the process involved tarballs and git and compiling from source.
bobby-trapped?
if only! then the scammers would get the long arm of the law giving them a cuff round the ear 'ole
Narrow appeal, surely?
I wonder how many people saw the links and thought "A free, openisource OS to download - Ubuntu with a hat on - Quick! I must get to that non-trusted download URL in a heartbeat!"
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