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Parking Ticket Leads to a Virus
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - Sarah Gingichashvili
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Hackers have discovered a new way of duping users onto fraudulent websites: fake parking tickets. Cars in the US had traffic violation tickets placed on the windscreen, which then directed users to a website. The website claimed to have photos of the alleged parking violation, but then tricks users into downloading a virus. Anti-virus firm McAfee says the Vundo Trojan then gets users to install a fake anti-virus scanner. Vehicles in Grand Forks, North Dakota, were the targets...    (source: news.bbc.co.uk)


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