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"You're", not "your". Someone should be catching these errors before publication.
A rogue anti-virus program called Defru has taken to the browser to find a smarter way of infecting users, Microsoft researchers say. The Defru malware blocks users from visiting certain websites and instead displays warnings about fake perceived threats while the correct intended web address was still displayed. Most victims …
Some of the fakes are quite convincing these days. There's fake McAfee, AVG and Avira - install any of these free "anti-virus" efforts, and the machine is effectively trashed. One of them was particularly malicious and corrupted the machine's BIOS once it had spread further - this was obviously designed to trash a company's computers, but got into the wild!
The only real cure to this virus nonsense is to run (almost) anything other than Windoze, and make sure that you're running as a "normal" user. As ever more people leave the M$ malware for proper Operating Systems, the prevalence of these viruses will reduce.....
I was, of course, referring to the vast majority of installations (including my own) which run Windows. I am typing this as a pleb user on my own machine set up by me. Some of my relatives have been caught by viruses because they were running as administrator.
XP was notorious for in-house applications that were sloppily written and would not run properly except as administrator.
"Defru has a different and simpler approach ... it prevents the user from using the internet by showing a fake scan when using different websites."
And the malware displays a message saying:
"Detected on your computer malicious software that blocks access to certain Internet resources, in order to protect your authentication data from intruders the defender system Windows Security was forced to intervene."
So up until the comma, the malware is actually telling the truth - it's just referring to itself.