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By Paul Gil, About.com Guide to Internet for Beginners since 2004

What is Scareware?

Wednesday December 3, 2008
The New York Times reports that a Russian operation seemed to be earning $5 million a year selling fake antivirus software, or "scareware." Often in the form of "rogue scanners", the peddlers of these products will use scare tactics to get you to buy their snake oil software. Our antivirus expert explains how these bogus programs work and how to avoid them...

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