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12th December 2008, 06:03 PM
|  | TST Oracle | | Join Date: Jul 2008, 8,169 posts. Location: UK Norfolk ..... Reputation:  | | | US shuts down 'scareware' sellers
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The US government has moved to shut down sellers of fake security software.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has won a restraining order that stops several sellers of "scareware" from continuing to trade.
Millions of people are thought to have been caught out by the software which, once installed, issues false alerts about viruses and illegal porn.
The FTC is pursuing further legal action to win a permanent ban on those peddling the scareware.
| BBC NEWS | Technology | US shuts down 'scareware' sellers 
thats good news
The fake security products the firms were peddling were: WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus.
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12th December 2008, 06:43 PM
|  | TST Master | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,107 posts. Location: England Reputation: | |
Good, hopefully the rest of the world will follow suit.
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12th December 2008, 07:11 PM
|  | Security Team | | Join Date: Dec 2007, 2,555 posts. Location: Tulsa, OK Reputation: | |
They have started making a push in the US on this also. Surprisingly enough Microsoft is putting up much of the funding to go after them.
They should make an international team to go after them also.   |
15th April 2009, 08:13 PM
|  | TST Expert | | Join Date: Sep 2008, 831 posts. Location: St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada Reputation: | | Quote: |
"People are paying 40-60 dollars for bogus software which does nothing," he said, adding that Finjan research suggests up to five million people around the world have fallen victim to the huge number of firms selling "scareware".
| It is nice to know that finally big brother is doing something in our favour. 
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15th April 2009, 09:27 PM
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