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You should have the ability to ‘share’ this information across social sites, since your readers are using them. Just makes sense.

Hi Amber, yes I know it is lacking right now, but blog improvements are in the works and that is definitely high on the priority list. Thanks for reading by the way.

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This is ALL OVER THE PLACE – MySpace has been infected with this forever (8+ months) – quite a number of MySpace advertisers either have been subverted, or they are ‘fakers’ posing as valid advertisers.

Several of us have tried to assist MySpace in eradicating it but, due to MySpace’s very dynamic advertising, it’s difficult to catch all instances – plus the fact that there are various ‘morphs’ of the original “fake scanner virus” (the one shown in 1st screen shot).

As long ago as 8 months, I saw this exact fake scan on several large-name sites – all but Facebook. – I saw it on Yahoo, eBay, NetworkSolutions and MySpace – those are the ones I specifically recall and tried to trace via IE cache, but it’s dicey at times.

And a couple of them are able to download spyware / malware, even to protected systems, because the perpetrators keep changing the code to evade the ‘real’ scanners and anti-malware vendors.

Again, I say PROSECUTE the perpetrators to the fullest extent! Just like “Patient Zero” – in determining the VERY FIRST patient of an oubreak, we need a “Victim Zero” initiative, to find the first happenings of such things like conficker and these fake scanner programs. Ultimately, for the most part, they eventually can be traced back to their originators, either via ‘money trail’ where someone purchased ADs and then infected those ads, or via diligent tracking back to the source via other hard-core investigative techniques.

And as I said above, we should be able to prosecute these folks, not just with “fines,” but with JAIL TIME!

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I recommend the removal of this threat. Instructions for removal can be found here: http://www.helpmyos.com/removal-guides-f41/how-to-remove-personal-antivirus-t1119.htm

Unbelievable that people believe these ads. They used to pop up all the time on our computers. Everyone here knew they were malware. Why would any company who uses computers in their business click to download these?

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