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Friday, February 06, 2009

New Hacker Trick: Fake Parking Tickets

Hackers in Grand Forks, North Dakota, are using a new trick: fake parking tickets. They placed official-looking tickets on windshields, which says the driver can view pictures of the violation on a specific web site. The site, of course, installs a trojan.

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Blogger Dave Barnes said...

I am confused.
The BBC story says: ""The initial program installed itself as a browser helper object (BHO) for Internet Explorer that downloaded a component".

My personal computer won't even run IE, so why should I care? It runs Safari and Firefox.

I mean, does anyone actually still use IE?

Saturday, February 07, 2009 8:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yes.

Saturday, February 07, 2009 4:38:00 PM  
Blogger Lyndal said...

Almost 70% of internet users use IE as of Jan 2009. Don't get me wrong... you sound very hip and cool with your mac lifestyle, but you are apparently easily confused.

Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:05:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No David, no one uses IE. Or Windows anymore. Trojan and virus writers have all gone away and Macs now rule the computer world.

Sunday, February 08, 2009 9:40:00 AM  

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