From several news sources today it is mentioned that many people fail to recognize fake pop-ups, the BBC reports on this.
Basically this means the fake pop-ups do work, unfortunately they work in favor of those who try to trick you into clicking the popup, this could be just to get the click and generate revenue but could also be in trying you to install some piece of software known to us as malware.
Malware stands for Malicious Software, usually designed to infiltrate a PC and use its resources for some negative actions.
We have to assume that those fake pop-ups appear on lesser standard website, meaning with lesser standards not the website you usually visit like CNN or MSNBC.
How could you prevent this from happening to your PC? that is not an easy thing to do but if compared to driving a car it means you constantly have to be on the lookout to prevent “accidents” from happening and when they do happen you should know what to do.
Install a virus scanner, regularly use anti-malware or anti-spyware utilities and use the firewall and most of all, be very conscious using the internet :). Similar to opening files from an email, do you trust the source who send it to you? if you know the person wonder why he/she would send this to you (he/she could have clicked that fake pop-up!!).
Be cautious out there on the (digital) highway.
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