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That's right -- scareware is still proving an effective way for threat actors to make quick cash on the Internet

May 24, 2011
By Tom Parker

For those of you who have not yet had the honor -- or stick strictly to the less murky side of the Internet -- the concept of scareware or fake AV is pretty simple. You browse to a website or receive an email advertising antivirus software typically boasting some made-up statistic in order to draw in the less technically savvy interwebs user.

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