VIVAnews – Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned scareware through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). They said, scareware positive tactics to fraud.
According to the Bureau estimated that the U.S. investigators, scareware may result in the victim’s lost more than 150 million U.S. dollars.
Scareware, also known as rogueware, used the words to describe the fake anti-virus products, misleading the user to pay a license fee and memborbardir security peringataan incorrect.
Plan for such crimes is very profitable, so that the perpetrators are usually the establishment of the underground cybercrime economy based on the overall program.
When a computer infected with a Trojan virus, it is possible scareware also installed on the computer. Then, when computer users search the latest information through a Google search engine, for example, may end search site contains scareware.
Warning IC3 target a distribution point scareware First of all, the Internet network. The threat, but now it has been made under IC3, when computer users began to surf the Internet, they began to receive a security warning pop-up, indicating that their computer is infected with a virus.
Pop-up window is very positive, often the only way to users, even if they are aware of the danger, close the browser and restart. Click it or not, pop-up window will remain infected.
IC3 is a partnership between the FBI, National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C) and the Legal Aid Bureau (BJA), has advised computer users surf the Internet anti-virus program up to date and reliable. ”If the user receives a pop-up anti-virus best close your browser or shut down the system. Then, we strongly recommend users to run a full scan on a regular basis antvirus wrote:” The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, cited Softpedia VIVAnews, 12 14,2009.
