Abuse of certificate
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Topic: Abuse of certificate
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Abuse of certificate
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 12:04pm
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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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Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 14 December 2005 at 9:39pm
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: Gullanian
Date 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! |
Posted By: the boss
Date Posted: 15 December 2005 at 4:16am
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he might be a moron who doesnt know what he is talking about!!
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 15 December 2005 at 11:37am
Maybe it is some spyware that is generating a fake popup 
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