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Subject: Can a Webpage Detect your AV?
From: Al Puzzuoli <[log in to unmask]>
Reply-To:Al Puzzuoli <[log in to unmask]>
Date:Mon, 9 May 2011 12:39:34 +0000
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text/plain (5 lines) , fake AV Warning.png (14 kB)


I was looking up something on Google, clicked on a seemingly innocuous webpage, and got the attached warning. This is clearly fake, but the interesting thing is that I am indeed running the Eset product. I wonder if this was just coincidental, or if there was code on this page that was able to query my system and determine which AV was running? If the latter is true, then I'm more than a little concerned,
Al



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