FBI takes down $74 million scareware operation

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Emil

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The Department of Justice, the FBI, and multiple international law enforcement partners, announced this week they have indicted two individuals from Latvia and seized more than 40 computers, servers, and…

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Guest

I am glad to see some of these people getting caught, they are leeches of society.

If you do get scareware, try Microsoft Safety Scanner, it's a free standalone .exe that I've had very good results with removing various types of malware such as scareware.
 
isamuelson

isamuelson

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My father-in-law got hit with one of these and he didn't know any better. Took me hours to clean that crap off his PC. I then educated him on these scams.

Worse part was he already had McAfee installed and it got corrupted big time.
 
tehbanz

tehbanz

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Guest said:
awww come on.....I make good money removing scareware for people :)
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Me too! i've removed so many "Fake AV's" I've got it down to about 30 minutes. Oh well, now that those are gone time for something else to pop up.
 
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hedoriko

WOOHOOOO I make good money on fixing people's computers, but WOOHOO!
Maybe my mother will stop bringing me her computer with these viruses.
 
Trillionsin

Trillionsin

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hedoriko said:
WOOHOOOO I make good money on fixing people's computers, but WOOHOO!
Maybe my mother will stop bringing me her computer with these viruses.
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Oh I know how this feels, too. Broke friends and family who expect it free... bah
 
amstech

amstech

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Todays society isn't very PC savy, many people don't know the difference between real anti-virus and fakes.
 
treetops

treetops

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Good I know 5 people who has had this program on there computer and I have removed it from a few family members computer including my own. Good job FBI
 
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