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Gullanian View Drop Down
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    Posted: 14 December 2005 at 12:04pm
Someone is complaining about 'abuse of certificate', and that the website in question is attempting to contact his computer everytime he acceses the Internet.

I'm confused, has anyone come accross this before?
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He probably hit the close button on some pop-up that was faked to look like a cert.
Moral of the story is to never close a pop-up using a button on the pop-up or the "X" in the top-right corner. The spyware folk love to fake those.

Always close pop-ups from the taskbar - right-click on the button for the window and hit close.

Lead me not into temptation... I know the short cut, follow me.
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Points: 4373 		Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gullanian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 December 2005 at 10:43pm
This is off one of my websites, but I don't have any trickery to do anything like that on it!
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he might be a moron who doesnt know what he is talking about!!

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Maybe it is some spyware that is generating a fake popup Confused
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