Hi Mike;
This one is certainly old news!
Porn sites have been doing this for at least 5 years I can think of, and in the Cesspool part of the Internet such as Utorrent, and Pirate Bay, various P2P media download sites this is more and more prevalent.
Of course, one has to be careful letting Clients know that they have been
"pornalized" let's say when they claim that they never go to porn sites-ever!!
Well, these days since so many systems have cross-contaminated even normally safe sites out there, as
davehc mentions, it's getting harder and harder to point the finger at the Client actually visiting porn sites which is the source of many of these
fake "flash player" update pop-ups. This has caused some divorces, break-ups, and near break-ups after passing along this little Gem of information!
It turns out, there are also fake update pop-ups (PUP's in most antispyware apps such as MBAM and Housecall) for most of the common Adobe free downloads including Adobe Reader, Flash Player, Air, and even Shockwave.
The fact that you've never run into this one means that you don't take side-trips into the Cesspool portion of the Internet! Well done.
Wish I could keep my Customers from doing that.
Thanks for posting regardless;
as people who don't hang out in the Cesspool may not have ever seen it.
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