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Fake Antivirus Overwhelming Scanners

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i'd-rather-be-phishing dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Rogue or bogus programs passing themselves off as real antivirus software have been one of the malware themes of 2009, but the APWG's numbers for the first half of the year show that the organisation's members detected 485,000 samples, more than five times the total for the whole of 2008."

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  1. Re:OVERWHELMING SCANNERS!! by xerxesVII · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    My kingdom for a mod point!

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