SEO Blackhat uses Scareware tactics for Cyber Monday

I was checking out some of the Cyber Monday Deals when I came across these two sites in Google. It looks like the black hats are at it again, trying to get you to install their fake Antivirus Software or Scareware as some would call. I went through to find out the fake scanner page url, you can see that on my previous post. They seem to only work when you have a http referrer from the search engine in question. The ones that I know about are Bing, Yahoo, Google, and Ask. If you click on a link from Google it will tell the page in question that you are coming from Google or any search engine above and thus display the fake warnings.

So how can you get around this little trick and prevent yourself from getting this type of scareware. There is and it can be used with Firefox. It is an addon that can prevent the Seo Blackhats who use this trick from fooling you. It is called No-Referer and it can prevent these fake warnings from popping up.

Download it:
Firefox Addon page
Firefox 3.5 and newer

I have checked this addon out with Firefox 3.7 and it works with out a hitch. I used those two searches and right clicked and selected “open link w/o referer”. Once you do that if you happen to come across a URL on Google or any other sites that you don’t trust, this will at least help prevent them from knowing you are coming from a search engine. Once I used this with those two links, since they weren’t referred from a Search Engine, I was redirected to CNN. No harm no Fowl.

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