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Not always so easy to spot...
JCitizen 20th Oct 2009
I once got a very realistic popup that looked like a Vista Computer window with a fake scanning progress bar. Now I've never seen a scanner in the Computer window, but if you're a new Vista user, you don't know how Vista works yet! 'Maybe thats how Windows Defender works now', they may think.

Fortunately I was on my XP laptop when it happened and didn't get click happy with it. I would have shut it down with tasks manager anyway; I've got into that habit a long time ago, because of regular malicious popups. So now I do it with many processes Windows doesn't want to close.

I only click the red [X] if it is a bona fide IE or FireFox window, and even then, I have now begun closing those using the task bar.
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