Simply by clicking a url you can be redirected to a malicious site. The hackers use malicious crimeware toolkits to poision and hijack clean websites to malicious ones. Then when you click a innocent looking picture like you did or a link, you get infected.
Just got hit by the firefox version of this today (3 May), again when using Google Images. Haven't been using firefox for long but didn't like the look of it so I exited the browser before clicking to download anything. Ran a virus scan and no damage done. Thanks for putting this up, it confirmed my suspicions that the thing was dodgy!
thanks i saved a picture once and something similar to the last one happened except they didn't want me to install any kind of software
kiran7866 3 weeks ago
i did this whit opera11 it didn't do and that means it 100% safe from roguewear
TheDog7118 2 months ago
that didn't happen in xp or vista it install itself
TheDog7118 2 months ago
This is quite a nice virus. Uses user agents to display different styles. I can see why any internet noob would click that.
Matrixian21 5 months ago
OMG i freaking hate these things >:( this has been happening a lot with google lately
BeatleMonkeegirl15 6 months ago
@Einstanzinho, if you hit a hijcked site like the one in the clip and then follow the instructions they give you. Then yes, you'll be infected.
stevehanlon 6 months ago
will these sites harm my computer or not
Einstanzinho 6 months ago
Simply by clicking a url you can be redirected to a malicious site. The hackers use malicious crimeware toolkits to poision and hijack clean websites to malicious ones. Then when you click a innocent looking picture like you did or a link, you get infected.
maycontainhardwork 6 months ago
thanks man.
fatbob2011 8 months ago
Thanks for putting up this video. Scary stuff and how easy it is for these scams to scim money out of my bank account.
keithpellowe 9 months ago
Just got hit by the firefox version of this today (3 May), again when using Google Images. Haven't been using firefox for long but didn't like the look of it so I exited the browser before clicking to download anything. Ran a virus scan and no damage done. Thanks for putting this up, it confirmed my suspicions that the thing was dodgy!
suew222 9 months ago