YoKenny Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Antiviral ?Scareware? Just One More IntruderBy JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO ? How much money can criminals make scaring na?ve computer users? Try $5 million a year. That is how much a marketing associate of one Russian operation appears to be earning from its sales of fake antivirus software through an elaborate scheme that relies on e-mail spam and indirectly controlling thousands of unprotected PCs, according to internal company files posted online by a Russian hacker. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/technolo...amp;exprod=digg "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." - Albert Einstein IE7Pro user Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpty Posted October 30, 2008 Share Posted October 30, 2008 Interesting if and when the rogue is executed to install and it detects the pc is Russian language it auto cancels the installation? Mr. Stewart also discovered that when the Bakasoftware program starts, it checks the language of the computer user based on information contained in the Windows operating system. If it finds the personal computer of a Russian language speaker, the program terminates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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