Your PC is infected

2009-04-01

Gabor Szappanos

VirusBuster, Hungary

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Rogue anti-malware applications have been around for several years, conning and causing confusion among users as well as posing problems for anti‑malware vendors. Gabor Szappanos takes a look at a piece of anti‑virus scamware.

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