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Has anyone seen an Internet Explorer window stating that
W32 RPC Virus Detected. It provides a OK button and
prompts you to click on OK to Scan and Clean. I have
seen this once at work (W2K) and just now at home (XP).
 
Has anyone seen an Internet Explorer window stating that
W32 RPC Virus Detected. It provides a OK button and
prompts you to click on OK to Scan and Clean. I have
seen this once at work (W2K) and just now at home (XP).
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Yes - it's a scam. It's a popup advert from one of the web sites you
visited in the IE session.

Clearly, whatever site hosts that advert, and whatever site that advert
points to, cannot be trusted to wipe your shoes, let alone provide a virus
scanning solution. My advice - ignore the advert, and stop visiting
whatever site pulled it up. Oh, and get a real virus scanner, so that when
those adverts pop up, you can tell them where to go.

Alun.
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Greetings --

It's a poorly crafted advertising scam, trying to capitalize on
the recent W32.Blaster.Worm outbreak. There is, to date, no such
virus. Personally, I'd never do business with a software company that
uses this kind of advertising tactic.


Bruce Chambers

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"Bruce Chambers" said:
It's a poorly crafted advertising scam, trying to capitalize on
the recent W32.Blaster.Worm outbreak. There is, to date, no such
virus. Personally, I'd never do business with a software company that
uses this kind of advertising tactic.
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I go further - I'd refuse to visit a web-site that put such an advert up on
my screen. I found long ago that mediocre companies do business with other
mediocre companies. Shoddy companies do business with other shoddy
companies. And so on. In this case, you've got a web-site hosted by a
company that is willing to take an advertisement from a company that lies
while trying to sell you "security" related software. I wouldn't trust the
originating web-site owners to shine my shoes.

Alun.
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