Beware of scareware – hackers appearing like the good guys. They may send you an error message and then entice you to buy a fix for it.
But the ‘fix’ is really fake antivirus software (so you were conned into buying trash) and/or the ‘fix’ actually spyware (placing u at risk.)
For a growing list of fake programs masquerading as the real thing, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_software
Last weekend, a Facebook application that spread virally among users caused an error message for Facebook users.
It would send itself to the friends of an infected user. No know what the “Error Check System” error was, the infected users Googled it.
And thus fell into the hackers’ trap…because the sites that came up on Google were run by hackers, selling rogue security software!
For more info about rogue security software, please go here: http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/rogue.mspx
