Malware Many people have recently experienced this: You surf on a perfectly legal website, and then suddenly pop up a seemingly terrible warning message stating that your computer has been infected. You try to close this warning message, and more and more windows are constantly popping, so you have to scan the computer.
If you do this, the scan will always find security problems and sell you security software to solve the problem. This is the rogue antivirus software. What this software does is help hackers make money.
The rogue antivirus software has been one of the most annoying security issues in the past few years. For the victim, the pop-up window looks like a virus infection. Every time trying to close the window, another window pops up again.
You should do this:
First, never buy the software it sells. This kind of software is not useful at all and it only causes the system to crash. You can press Alt and F4 to close the browser or press Ctrl, Alt, and Delete to open the system's task manager and close the browser. Closing the browser can solve the pop-up problem.
Another way to avoid rogue antivirus software attacks is to be very careful when reading headlines. Hackers will usually bury malicious code in hot topics and headlines so that they can rapidly promote their malicious websites in Google search results. .
Google tries to control this kind of behavior by hackers, but whenever major news comes up, hackers are always ahead of others. "The only way to avoid being infected is to read only news from trusted news sources or search news services you haven't seen in Google News," says Sundt's Boyd.
Next step: Use less popular applications to ensure that the program is up to date.