The Internet Is Trying to Trick You (Again)
Fake Antivirus? A new fake antivirus site scam is popping up. Here’s what to know. The old adage “Don’t trust everything you read on the internet” — allegedly coined by that famed internet scholar, Abraham Lincoln (citation needed) — feels truer than it ever has. Just yesterday I was trying to update my iPhone to the latest version of iOS, iOS 26. It wasn’t working, so I turned to Google….whose automatic AI response scolded me: “You’re probably having trouble because iOS 26 isn’t real! Apple’s next mobile OS will be called iOS 19, and it isn’t out yet.” The problem is, that’s wrong on just about every front. Apple’s next version really is called iOS 26 and it really did get released this month. But seriously: the internet’s loose grip on the truth goes well beyond Wikipedia trolls and generative AI flubs. And some of those lies are designed specifically to trick you into compromising your business’s security. New Version of an Old Threat: Fake Antivirus Sites Antivirus scams are no...