Nothing worse than a Twitter addict cartoon: pc weenies

Bogus accounts and almost-real tweets fool users into “installing fake anti virus software”

We’ve all gotten those pop-up messages in the internet telling us our computer may have a virus, or the virus checker is out of date and they will scan it for free. Keep going down that road and they want a) money and b) maybe they will load a virus on your computer.

That scam is big business – maybe as much as $5 million a year for one site.

Since Twitter is popular, the scammers are making up phony tweets based on popular keywords and mass Tweeting.

These people are so sophisticated, they make up tweet accounts, trying to get you to join their network. They change the background to make it look like a different account. The start up and close down accounts within days so they can’t be exposed. And they make a lot of money fooling people.

The only way to avoid them is to never accept anyone’s word about virus infections except the company you use. It’s probably not a good idea to Follow someone who asks you when you don’t know them and they have like 10,000 people following them.

From ComputerWorld