Fluffy Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 Interesting news item this morning about Scareware http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8313678.stm Anyone got any info that will help spot it !1 Fluff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 What do you think this site is basically all about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 Exactly Corona ! Sharing info and trying to keep one step ahead of the newest and latest attempts to con people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireryone Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 They have been doing thet for ages tho. Browse web ... advert pops up flashing "you may be infected" or "9/10 pc have slow performance buy me to boost that" Its just the same as the "you have won" ads, been around for ages not sure why they are re-classifying them. fireryone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corona Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 The reason roguewares still exist and are so $ucce$ful is because the internet is worldwide, not regional. Do you know how many dumb people there are on this rock? Quite a lot. When you're throwing your clandestine evil wares into a global market of nearly 6 billion people you're still going to get quite a few hits. I'm sure their biggest slice of the pie comes from non-Western countries where English is a tertiary language, thus making anyones' knowledge of English somewhat a status symbol. And if they see a big shiny Vista-ish ad written in English proclaiming that AntiVirus 2010 is the smartest protective wave of the future, well there ya go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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