The FBI has just issued a warning to people traveling out of the country about malware being secretly installed on the laptop computers of people staying at hotels offering Internet connections in their hotel rooms.  The installation of the malware, which has included dangerous keystroke logging programs that can steal all of the information from your computer occurs when in the course of connecting to the hotel Internet system a pop up appears informing you that you need to update a commonly used software product.  The software the pop up refers to is legitimate.  This pop up is not.  It is a phony pop up and when you click on it to install the newest update, instead you are downloading dangerous malware.

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Update your software at home or at work on your own Internet service to avoid these problems.  If you need to update your service while abroad, go directly to the website of the software vendor and download a safe version.