How to deal with a warning message on a personal computer or smartphone | Trend Micro IS702

Even if you are worried that you may have been infected with the virus, do not carelessly push the button in the warning message. There is a danger of being guided to an unauthorized site. Such a fake warning is always a trick that hinders calm judgments by making the equipment users feel anxious and impatient, and promotes the actions of cyber criminals. There is a risk of being installed in the induced unauthorized site for recovery, or being induced to support fraud. Support scams are a trick to deceive money and information from online users by making a non -enthusiastic support contract to contact a fake support center. Once you enter the contract, you will not only enter and send information such as name, e -mail address, phone number, credit card, etc., but will also be deceived by the name of the support fee. Care must be taken because the same tricks have been confirmed on smartphones.

There are two main causes of false warning messages.One is an illegal adware.The adware is to display ads on a computer or smartphone.If you have installed unauthorized adware, you may be shut down on unwanted advertisements, or you may be guided by advertising to illegal sites.The main purpose of the attacker who scatters unauthorized adware is the sales of nuisance software and affiliates (the leaders will receive a reward from the developer by induction to a specific site via advertising, and install the software and apps.The mechanism), gaining money and information by guiding to a fraudulent site.

The other is that the user has permitted the receipt of a web push notification from an illegal website.The web push notification is a mechanism that allows you to send a message from the web server (website) to the web browser at any time.Depending on the website, this mechanism may be used for distribution such as new information and important notices.

Have you ever seen the following dialogs during the net surfing?Do not press the contents and do not press the buttons such as "permission", "OK", "allow".This is because if you allow a notification display to an unauthorized website, you may receive a fake warning message for the purpose of guiding to an unauthorized site such as a fraudulent site.There are also websites that disguise the visitors by pretending to be Captcha authentication (authentication method used to confirm that the response is not a computer) in the image "Click on permission if you are not a robot".