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Interesting news item this morning
about Scareware
http://news.bbc.co.u...ogy/8313678.stm
Anyone got any info that will help spot it !1
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Posted 19 October 2009 - 11:37 PM
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.
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.
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Those who understand binary, and those who don't.
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Posted 20 October 2009 - 01:45 AM
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.
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