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Scareware is a form of
malware which uses
social engineering to
cause shock, anxiety, or the
perception of a
threat in
order to mani****te
users into...
- In the
context of
information security,
social engineering is the use of
psychological influence of
people into
performing actions or
divulging confidential...
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NightMare is a
scareware program distributed on the Fish
Disks for the
Amiga computer (Fish #448). It is
generally credited to be the
first scareware program...
- tool that
actually installs malware on
their computer. It is a form of
scareware that mani****tes
users through fear, and a form of ransomware.
Rogue security...
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usually as part of the
Flash update process, and for
pushing a third-party
scareware program designed to
scare users into
paying for
unneeded system repairs...
- AOL, Inc. The
lawsuit alleged Support.com and AOL's
Computer Checkup "
scareware" (which uses
software developed by Support.com)
misrepresented that their...
- 2012,
James Gross filed a
lawsuit against Symantec for
distributing fake
scareware scanners that
purportedly alerted users of
issues with
their computers...
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harvest usernames, p****words, bank
account and
credit card numbers."
Scareware, as the name suggests, is a form of
malware which uses
social engineering...
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controversial topic. The
issue is
further clouded by the fact that
malware and
scareware are
often ****ociated with
utilities of this type. Due to the
sheer size...
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Protect 2009 and
Antivirus XP 2008/Antivirus2009/SecurityTool/etc) is a
scareware rogue anti-virus
which purports to
remove virus infections found on a...
