Windows 7 - IE9 new scareware protection

I know dear old Ed Bott is a confirmed MS man but this is an interesting article about how browsers deal with "social engineering" attacks'
It's comparing IE9 with Chrome and it appears that IE9 is ahead of the game with this form of attack.
I though it was interesting and useful to read whatever your browser preference

IE9 versus Chrome: which one blocks malware better? | ZDNet

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People fall for that?
The Google Chrome boxes were OBVIOUSLY not from Chrome, seriously.

Though I will give it that, IE9 apparently has an annoyingly good warnings program. Chrome could step it up a tad.

~Lordbob

unfortunately to the unwitting scareware popups can be quite alarming.

my girlfriend's grandma completely freaked out over one (on a mac nonetheless) and is convinced she has a virus and will now pay money for a mac technician to look at it.

I also noticed and don't know how this happened. But my gf got one and somehow her browser was set to open that tab and site when she re-opened the browser, bringing up the false warning every time she opened her browser (FF4).

I could be mistaken about the tab thing, not sure how that came about - but it had her concerned for a moment as well.

Unfortunately they do LB. In another post I mentioned a lady friend of mine who opened some page which had a flashing banner ad "CLICK ME", which she of course started to do. I warned her not to since it could be some bad program or virus. Her reply? "But it says click me!" <whistles innocently>

~Lordbob

Yup. Macs are getting this too:

What a Mac malware attack looks like | ZDNet

Co-worker friend has a Macbook Pro, and got worried about similar thing. He opened Safari or something, and it popped up a fullscreen animated GIF of flashing red VIRUS and other bits on Icons..telling him his AV was out of date, and click here to buy this AV to "fix" the viruses he had.

He called me up to take a look at it, because his login password wasn't working to give him admin rights or summat to install this AV

When he arrived at my house, he opened the lid and showed me what it was doing. As soon as I saw it, I immediately noticed it was a fake .. cause all the GFX were of a XP Home computer .

What in the name of god is "summat"?

"Summat" is a good old-fashioned way of saying "something" over here in the UK.

Similarly, "nowt" means "nothing".

i use 'summat' for shortening 'something or other like that' or 'something like that' .. summat!