Google recommends you to activate antivirus 2009

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Here are the latest Insider stories. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Those warnings, explained Microsoft researcher Hamish O'Dea in a post to the company's malware protection center blog two weeks ago, appear at random and mimic IE's own legitimate drop-down alerts.

Newer variations of the Yektel Trojan go a step further and insert phony warnings into Google search results, said O'Dea. Whenever these even-sneakier versions detect IE rendering a URL that includes "google," it inserts a fake message that says, "Google has detected unregistered Antivirus copy on your computer. Google recommends you activate Antivirus to protect your PC from malicious intrusions from the Internet.

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