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Viruses: Hackers Using Fake Parking Tickets to Infect Computers

by on Feb.09, 2009, under Security

Here’s an interesting twist on an old scam.   In a town in the US someone has been issuing fake parking tickets.   The fake tickets instruct the victim to go to a website to pay their fine, the website in turn says that you have to download a ‘toolbar’ to see the details and pay their fine.

Needless to say the toolbar is really a trojan infested piece of malware, which will continue to spawn popups including the notorious Antivirus 2009.

Viruses: Hackers Using Fake Parking Tickets to Infect Computers.

Yet another example of how the bad guys are changing their tactics to stay ahead of the curve.

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