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Pop Up on Mac OS X for Windows Anti-Virus PC
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1299211" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>That would be pretty obvious, you get one of those stupid popups pretending to scan your computer and wanting you to buy their software to save yourself.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Have never seen one of these sent via email. If it is, delete the email. Pretty easy. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Whether you get those popups doesn't have a lot to do with which OS you have, it has to do with what browsers are capable of doing.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That or quit browsing the web are really the only solutions. You're no more safe from people out there that want to scam you out of your money on the web than you are in real life.</p><p></p><p>You stay away from certain known neighborhoods and areas in towns in real life, stay away from those sites that are trying to scam you out of your money while you're on the web. Seems pretty easy to me.</p><p></p><p>And I disagree that it's a broad solution. I only run into those sites maybe once or twice a year. I've already made the commitment that if a web site uses one of those popups, once I get out of the stupid thing, I don't go back to that site, I look for another - as they really don't want <strong>my</strong> business. They're looking for people they can scam. And it's not going to be me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1299211, member: 24160"] That would be pretty obvious, you get one of those stupid popups pretending to scan your computer and wanting you to buy their software to save yourself. Have never seen one of these sent via email. If it is, delete the email. Pretty easy. Whether you get those popups doesn't have a lot to do with which OS you have, it has to do with what browsers are capable of doing. That or quit browsing the web are really the only solutions. You're no more safe from people out there that want to scam you out of your money on the web than you are in real life. You stay away from certain known neighborhoods and areas in towns in real life, stay away from those sites that are trying to scam you out of your money while you're on the web. Seems pretty easy to me. And I disagree that it's a broad solution. I only run into those sites maybe once or twice a year. I've already made the commitment that if a web site uses one of those popups, once I get out of the stupid thing, I don't go back to that site, I look for another - as they really don't want [B]my[/B] business. They're looking for people they can scam. And it's not going to be me. [/QUOTE]
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