PC Magazine: How to Avoid Scareware

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If you're fooled by a rogue security program, you pay good money for nothing, miss out on actual security, and give your credit card info to shady characters. Here's how to avoid being duped.

December 8, 2010
By Neil J. Rubenking

Not all of the programs that promise protection against viruses and other nasties have your best interests at heart. Some of them are actually Trojan horses—programs that pretend to be useful but actually do harm in the end. Others simply ape the real security software and try to scare you into paying money to clean up problems that don't really exist. For that reason they're often called scareware.

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