Free Music… Come And Get It

And 360,000 people responded - and got adware instead. The difficulty is to know what is genuine and what isn’t. A number of big name bands, Coldplay being the latest, have released their upcoming single ‘for free’ as an MP3 - and that was genuine. So where’s the difference? In this particular case the MP3 turns out to be an executable - so it’s a program, not a music file. This brings us quite nicely to browser plug-ins which you (the user) are told are required for a web page to load correctly - but it turns out that a large number of these are also malware (adware and keyloggers top the list).

If you are on a web site you don’t know and it asks you to run a program, or install a browser plug-in. Just say no… navigate away. Remember… If a deal sounds to good to be true - then it probably is, and its better to be safe than sorry.

May 9, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

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