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Scareware mongers hitch free ride on Microsoft.com and others
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| Miscreants are exploiting weaknesses in more than one million webpages
| operated by the federal government, media companies, and even Microsoft to
| trick unwitting visitors into installing harmful software that takes over
| their computers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/23/open_redirect/
Fake Antivirus Peddlers Helped by Microsoft, IRS
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| Just weeks after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission shut down two companies
| accused of selling fake antivirus software, a new player has moved into the
| market, aided by glitches in the Microsoft and U.S. Internal Revenue Service
| Web sites.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/156010/fake_antivirus_peddlers_helped_by_microsoft_irs.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
Most recent Windows infections result from the same simple trick
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| BitDefender's Top 10 E-Threats Report identifies just one type of attack as
| being responsible for more than a third of Windows infections in the past
| month: fake anti-virus scans, also known as scareware.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Most-recent-Windows-infections-result-from-the-same-simple-trick--/112176
Dodgy affiliates use malware to flog Symantec and Check Point
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| Unscrupulous affiliates are using malware to advertise security software from
| legitimate firms. The practice is the brainchild of people who make a
| commission for every sale they generate - and not security vendors
| themselves. The practice raises serious concerns about the integrity and
| policing of affiliate programs from big names in security including Symantec
| and Check Point.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/12/malware_punts_symantec_check_point/
- From vapourware to scareware, Microsoft keeps innovating
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| Microsoft talks a lot about innovation. It innovated the Xbox, several
| years after everyone else; it innovated the Zune, several years after
| everyone else; it innovated the GUI, several years after Apple (okay,
| and Xerox); it innovated Hotmail ... oh, alright, it bought Hotmail.
| Bill Gates famously missed the internet revolution and then innovated
| the web browser, several years after Netscape.
|
| [...]
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| In the meantime, though, the company that brought us vapourware has
| innovated yet another new product: scareware (oh, okay, a couple ofy
| ears after SCO).
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/D1173B1AE779A1A1CC2572E6000E30E6
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