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Original Technorati articles tagged “scareware”

• in IT
  Can a Virus or Spyware Get Through Free and Paid Antivirus Products?
  Advice on choosing free over paid antivirus products, plus information on how viruses can morph.
  by callthatgirl / on Mar 15, 2011
• in IT
  Scareware Scumbags Facing Fraud Charges
  Innovative Marketing masterminds live abroad however.
  by boneinthefan / on May 28, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “scareware”

 

• What is a Rogueware and how to remove it?

  
  Tech Salsa — Authority: 110
  You must have heard of many computer infections like malware, adware etc but ever heard what’s a Rogueware is? Yes, computer world have got this new type of malicious infection lately. What is a Rogueware? Rogueware, also known as Rogue security software is a new type of internet fraud that fools the users to ...
  1 week ago

• RogueKiller is an Effective Malicious Rogueware Cleaner

  
  Raymond.CC Blog — Authority: 106
  Rogueware or commonly known as fake antivirus is a kind of scareware that misleads users into paying for fake or simulated removal of malware or that installs other malware. Once your computer is infected with a rogueware, it will either secretly download more real viruses to your computer which is kinda rare nowadays ...
  1 week ago

• Symantec Sued For Running Fake "Scareware" Scans

  
  The Social Feed — Authority: 423
  James Gross, a resident of Washington State, filed what he intends to be a class action lawsuit against Symantec in a Northern District California court, claiming that Symantec defrauds consumers by running fake scans on their machines, with results designed to bully users into upgrading to a paid version of the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Week Adjourned: 1.13.12

  
  LawyersAndSettlements.com The Blog — Authority: 103
  A wrap up of the weeks top class action lawsuits and settlements, for the week ending January 13, 2012.
  2 weeks ago

• Symantec Called A Scareware Scammer, Slapped With Lawsuit

  
  ModCool — Authority: 146
  We’ve all seen scareware in action: that especially annoying type of malware that pops up thousands of windows, each shrieking OH NO YOUR COMPUTER HAS UMPTEEN MILLION VIRUSES and extolling users to purchase fake antivirus software (using a credit card, of course). Real antivirus programs like Symantec’s Norton ...
  2 weeks ago

• Symantec Scare People Into Buying Security Software?

  
  Shadowland — Authority: 104
  A man from Washington in the United States has filed a lawsuit against the security company Symantec, where he accuses the company of fraud and illegal practices. According to the lawsuit, Symantec uses the same kind of intimidation techniques as fake scareware software to sell its PC cleanup utilities. The man who ...
  2 weeks ago

• Symantec accused of malware scare tactics to sell its security software

  
  Extremetech — Authority: 728
  Today’s irony cup overfloweth: A Californian man has filed a lawsuit against Symantec, claiming that its software uses scare tactics to scam consumers out of money — the exact same tactics that fake antivirus malware uses to scam unwitting computer users out of millions of dollars every year. The plaintiff, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Apple event next week; attempted suicides at Foxconn reported; Symantec sued

  
  GMSV — Authority: 494
  A grab bag of news related to Silicon Valley tech companies: • What we know: Apple will make an announcement Jan. 19. The company will hold a press conference at the Guggenheim Museum New York next week, according to those who have received invitations so far. Speculation that’s likely to...
  2 weeks ago

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