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Because of a hot local issue, I've been on Facebook more this week than I've been all year, and sure enough I got several ostensibly legitimate pop-ups warning me that my computer was infected and I should download this application right away to fix it. The popups *looked* like they were from Microsoft, but I'm pathologically suspicious of gratuitous .exe files. I had a hard time making them stop (hitting "Cancel" only generated another instance, but closing IE entirely finally stopped the onslaught). Just in case, I immediately ran a full Trend Micro scan and found nothing more than a couple of errant cookies -- but it was nerve-wracking because I'm not at all tech savvy (unless you count being smart enough not to download those stinkin' .exe files). It had to be Facebook because I generally don't have these problems.
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