“Free Online Malware Scanner”

12-22-07 · 1 comment

For the second time in as many months, Safari has been hijacked by a process that has minimized the main window and presented a fake dialog box inviting me to choose to visit a site to get a free “malware scanner”. The first hijack occurred when I clicked an innocent link at The Huffington Post, and today while enroute to the The Hollywood Reporter from a link at Techmeme. Anyone had this happen to them?

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Ben Kershner May 12, 2008 at 00:31

I just had it happen to me! I’m furious!

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