News Story People still fall for scareware?

Courtesy DaniWeb IT Discussion Community (Featured Entries)  Mon, 10/19/2009 - 11:52

Symantec has published one of those rare things - a report that contains an actual surprise.

It seems some 4 million people have fallen for Scareware in the last 12 months.

I'm stunned.

Not because people are installing fake antivirus systems.

That's a shame but in some ways it's inevitable; people on their own will fall for scams. No, what alarms me is that the IT community (and if we include journalists and bloggers that's all of...


 

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