The Anti-virus Times

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Internet fraudsters and virus makers take advantage of their victims’ feelings of fear and panic. For example, those feelings can compel them to install anti-antivirus programs or turn them into targets of phishing attacks. However, attentive users may notice that a notification or message they’ve received has nothing to do with reality. But here attackers have found a solution too!

If you go to the Control Panel and select Administrative Tools → Computer Management, you will see a window that, among other things, contains information provided by the applications running in the system. Let's view some entries from the Critical and Alerts categories:

Here is a potential problem that your support service would probably be interested in knowing about.

That is, users are told that there really is a likely problem! And it doesn't matter that in fact there is no problem. What’s important is that there’s a reason to call support. #social_engineering #psychology #Windows #support #fraud #security