Scareware pop-ups Sued
Posted on October 7th, 2008 at 8:42 am by Grace

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Seeing ‘WARNING: YOUR COMPUTER IS VULNERABLE! CLICK HERE TO PROTECT YOURSELF!’ can just mean there’s something is not working in your system security. NOT! Theres a new spyware that displays this kind of message which brings panic to its users. And tricks them into purchasing bogus applications or products to fix the vulnerability. These are clearly scams. Malwares. It is designed primarily to scare you into purchasing or giving out your information. It pretends to help you solve the problems that it has found in your system by paying a premium and they will take care of the rest. Microsoft and the state of Washington has filed a lawsuit against a few companies, one of the companies is from Texas, a firm that sells Registry Cleaner XP for $40. The big companies like Microsoft continuously run after these copycats. With the 2005 Computer Spyware Act backing them up but the suspects are hard to find.