'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' Pop-Ups

The 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups are phishing attacks that may try to gain access to your information, finances, or PC after precipitating contact with a con artist over the phone. Both intentionally corrupted and compromised websites, including ones with insecure advertisement networks, may serve the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups to your Web browser. Careful Web-browsing settings and anti-malware protection can protect you from the content of these attacks or remove the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups that continue triggering.

Submitting a Ticket to be Robbed

Even while the campaigns deploying the Keylogger Zeus have shriveled, other people have taken advantage of its newsworthiness for leveraging independent hoaxes and attacks. The 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups are one of the many examples of such attacks, which pretend that their victims are under attack by high-level threats, to gain deeper access to the system. Like the 'Your Hard drive will be DELETED' Pop-Ups, the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups also pair their tactics with fake, Windows-specific error screens.

The 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups may launch from either a site corrupted intentionally or one that's been compromised by a third-party, including over an advertising service potentially. Thus far, malware experts are seeing some domains deploying the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups with URL-masking techniques that could prevent the Web surfer from telling the identity of the website. Regardless of its point of origin, the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups launch along with a fake 'Blue Screen of Death' window and additional dialogue boxes.

Besides the various system errors that the other Web elements may display, the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups include a text warning the reader of an active 'ZEUS Virus' infection. They're asked to call a fake technical support number posing as either an Apple or Microsoft service alternately, which exposes the Web surfer to a con artist 'free of charge.'

The consequences of such tactics may include, among other security issues:

• The con artists may ask for money to provide a repair or disinfection service or product for your computer.
• They also may demand you to provide remote desktop access, which can give a con artist a potential of complete control over the PC.

Tearing Up Your Entry in the Pop-Up Poverty Contest

A variety of misapplied and inaccurate details in the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups can help readers identify that these threats are hoaxes immediately. The dual references to opposing operating systems, grammatical mistakes, and inappropriate error codes are a few signs that malware experts recommend noting. Sites that are asking you to call a technical support number always should be viewed as being attempts to compromise, if not your PC, your bank account or information potentially. Any Web surfer also should remember that a real Windows BSOD never loads inside of a Web browser.

Although the tactics associated with the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups are identifiable easily, these attacks may include additional scripts, such as drive-by-downloads and exploit kits, which aren't always visible. Allowing anti-malware and related security tools to scan the system after any contact with a suspicious site can catch other threats before they can damage your PC. Removing the 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups that reappear due to temporarily cached Web-browsing content also is achievable with most anti-malware and anti-adware products.

The 'Error Ticket: WBCKL457' pop-ups may have all the classic looks of a Windows warning screen but can't give you any security information worth having. Taking the source into account when reading a new pop-up often is the simplest protection against websites with shady intentions.