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RE: Millions of PC Users Tricked by Scareware
By jonmcc33 on 10/20/2009 4:57:12 PM , Rating: 1
Won't harm it? They are designed to steal information from your computer and send that info to remote servers. Hence spyware. The obvious fools give them their credit card info anyway.

If that's not harm then I don't know what is. Maybe you don't have a job or any credit cards.

RE: Millions of PC Users Tricked by Scareware
By SpaceJumper on 10/20/2009 9:07:22 PM , Rating: 1
When you are doing banking for example, the web browser software is running on its own memory space. It can not be infected.
To get your info, the bad webpage exploits the vulnerability of the web browser and changes the link in your bookmark and redirects you to a temporary fake webpage and steals your info. Anti-virus software cannot really stop that. That called phishing.
Good luck with your scareware, anti-scareware, or anti-virus or whatever you want to call it. Remember do not give your info to a fake webpage, from email or a look alike webpage. You can also look into the source code of the webpage to identify it or you can monitor your 2^16 ports in your computer.
Are you scare? Halloween is comming soon. Scare tactic really works.

RE: Millions of PC Users Tricked by Scareware
By tmouse on 10/21/2009 8:08:02 AM , Rating: 3
That is phishing, but phishing is not the only way. Ever heard of keystroke loggers? There are many trojans that monitor your system for fields like logon, password, paypal ect. They store the information and send it out to remote servers later. Then there are the ones that simply stay dormant until they are instructed to send DDOS attacks. Nothing is 100% effective, but using that as a reason to have no protection is stupid plain and simple.

RE: Millions of PC Users Tricked by Scareware
By SpaceJumper on 10/21/2009 4:57:29 PM , Rating: 1
I don't see how you can do that unless you are giving Windows permission to install that piece of malicious software in your computer. I agreed that people do all the time by just clicking yes to everything. That's the different issue, because it is not Windows issue. If you know how do to that you should send the source code to Microsoft and let them verify it.
The risks of catching one is very rare now a day. It is the same for MAC versus Windows. MAC is way more vulnerable than that of Windows but the risk of exploitation is very slim.
Is it just your scare tactic? Could you name the malicious piece that can do what you said?

RE: Millions of PC Users Tricked by Scareware
By tmouse on 10/22/2009 9:21:18 AM , Rating: 2
How do you know if anything you install is infected? If you install anything you give permission, if one or more files are infected your system gets infected. There have been many cases of "trusted" files accidently getting infected prior to going online and being made available before being caught. There have even been cases of gold versions of programs being infected before duplication. Fortunately there have not been many cases of that with the advent of AV programs. Some worms just need to get inside of your firewall and wait until you install something and piggyback on the installation, they can live in your browser cache, (by definition you give your browser permission to create files there, some will auto flush other do not that's how many browsers "speed up" browsing by storing pages on your computer.

The risks of catching one is very rare now a day

I'm not sure what planet your living on with that statement.


I have no real evidence that the Mac is "way more vulnerable than that of Windows" and I seriously doubt you do, it IS less of a target due to a combination of a smaller installation base and Apple is not as disliked as Microsoft, currently.

By SpaceJumper on 10/22/2009 11:29:27 AM , Rating: 2
Now I realized that scare tactics, paranoia, imagination, and assumptions are very effective marketing tool for selling the anti-something software(s).

By SpaceJumper on 10/22/2009 4:39:29 PM , Rating: 2
Good computer Halloween story. Good job!!!

