To learn more, I used the online whois service to look up the information associated with this particular domain and, well, it’s the capper: That’s definitely more than just a bit suspicious. To confirm, look what you see when you go to that URL without all the odd stuff appended: The “.be” domain is Belgium, but more importantly, it’s not or similar, so that’s a major problem. Still, it’s the URL that was a big red flag. There’s also some odd wording, like “Top Video Sites Require The Latest…” rather than something more like “This site has content that requires…” First off, the pop-up window is part of the landing page, not coming out of the Flash player itself. Looks legitimate, though there are a few things that made me instantly suspicious.
Let’s look at one I bumped into while reading an article on, a quite reputable Web site: Where’s the message coming from? Where is it taking you after you click - though you should never click if there’s even the slightest doubt. How can you tell? As always, pay attention to the URL. Instead, I believe you’ve bumped into one of the newer forms of malware distribution, a very smart design that is predicated on us users blindly clicking “update” if we’re told something we’re running is out of date.
I’m so impressed that you’re skeptical about these sort of things because if your Flash player needs an update, it’s the player itself that will pop up the update window, meaning it won’t be part of the Web page that has the content in question.
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