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Conficker Rolls On, With Scareware in Tow

One of the more infamous worms in recent memory is still doing damage, in part by installing a form of "scareware" on computers -- fake anti-virus malware that promises to clean users' machines if they'll just fork over $50 or so. Redmond magazine covered scareware in depth a couple of months ago. Read more about it here.

Posted by Lee Pender on 04/14/2009 at 1:22 PM

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