Massive Profits Fueling Rogue Antivirus Market

Massive Profits Fueling Rogue Antivirus Market

In the cyber underworld, more and more individuals are generating six-figure paychecks each month by tricking unknowing computer users into installing rogue anti-virus and security products, new data suggests.

One service, that exemplifies a very easy way these bad guys can make this kind of money is TrafficConverter.biz, one of the leading "affiliate programs" that pays people to distribute relatively worthless security software. Affiliates are given a range of links and Javascript snippets they can use to embed the software in hacked and malicious Web sites, or tainted banner advertisements online.

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You are all over the web YoKenny. I've seen posts from you on Avast and MalwareBytes forums' today :P

This is getting ridiculous though. These people are making fortunes off of unsuspecting folks. Cybercrime is almost as bad as real life crime now. Just because of the time vested in trying to stay secure, money/data lost when becoming infected, and money spent on protection for those who choose to pay for products.

Its marvelous what one can do with multiple tabs open, copy-n-paste and my OE showing me my email and news from grc.com