Rogue Anti-Virus Victims Rarely Fight Back

krebsonsecurity writes "One big reason why rogue anti-virus continues to make major bucks for scam artists: relatively few victims ever ask their credit card company or bank to reverse the charges for the phony security software — even when the victims don't even receive the worthless software they were promised. I recently found several caches of data for affiliates of a rogue anti-virus distribution program, and the data showed that in one set of attacks only 367 out of more than 2,000 scammed disputed the charge. A second rogue anti-virus campaign scammed more than 1,600 people, and yet fewer than 10 percent fought the charges."

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Re:Many aren't smart enough. Or rather,

[SgtChaireBourne]

"I've helped several people with Windows reinstalls (just did it again this weekend, in fact, on a really nice, new Dell laptop that this person was ready to trash and replace after just a year) "

If they were as stupid as you assert, then why did you fuck them over by putting Windows on their computer? They only ever surf the web and send e-mail anyway. So why not set them up with a fresh Fedora or Ubuntu installation? It's easier for them to use and, unless you a bilking them for support fees, a gain for you.