Technology Through Our Eyes

One day about a year or two ago, I noticed a message pop up on my desktop. It was from a friend I hadn't been in contact with for a while; I was curious what it was he was sending me. I clicked on the link in this message and the Download started. Well I knew right away by the web design this wasn't where I needed to be. I began to have a Web Site pop up I hadn't clicked on all over my screen. This was definitely a virus. Before I had time to close this multiple page attack from this web site, I had friends start instant messaging me. They started asking why I had sent them this link. I immediately pulled up a group message for all of my contacts and sent out the information that I had just opened a link from a contact and that it was a virus. If anyone received a message from this ID to please close it and don't open any links for it must be a virus I had just opened. I soon figured out I had to uninstall the program I use for instant messages with that ID. Just dump all of it and reinstall it and create a new ID from the messenger's web site that I use. What a pain in the butt this was. The web site had no alternative resolution to the problem no other download to fix or clean out this virus. My only option to fix the problem was to lose ID and start over. I sent out another group message and told all my contacts I would be getting a new ID and I would send out messages to all that it was I and to please re-add me. I had the download started from the messenger's web site in a quick minute though. The web design is good on the main page of this messenger's web site.

This popnup web site from the virus link I shouldn't have clicked and started a download was a dating online web site. The web design with a "R" rating web design. Not with just a little imagination the Web Design spoke volumes as to what I was getting into if I continued anywhere through the web site. Another download would mean more trouble of virus attacks.