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F1 key virus
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:19 pm
by Constantine
NO JOKE
If Internet Explorer suddenly prompts you to press the F1 key, don't. It can initiate a virus.
Here is what Snope has to say:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/f1key.asp
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 9:25 am
by Tina-Kate
Thanks for the warning!
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:42 pm
by twinsrwe
TruthOrFiction.com has a list of the affected software packages.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/m/MS-F1-attack.htm
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 8:43 pm
by kssunflower
Thanks, guys, for the info. Thankfully, the new laptop I just bought has Windows 7.
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:22 am
by augusta
Thank you, Constantine.
My laptop crashed about a month ago. Pop up reminders telling me my Adobe needed updating and to "click here", Java "click here" fake updates, and big-as-your-screen "click here"s for my security system caused it. I had stopped clicking on the Java and Adobe ones. They were small and at the bottom of the screen, and if you left them alone they'd go away eventually. But the other one you had no choice but to "x" it out.
Our main computer was having it happening too, and I scanned it probably just before it was gonna crash. I was one day late in scanning my laptop. Ooh, it was scary, too. Just no access at all and a blue screen that kept telling me to "click here" to restart, which just brought me back to that page again and again.
Cost $115 to fix it. I fail to understand why hackers do this stuff. They're not even there to see you swear and get mad. I sure wish they'd catch more of them.