FTC Moves Against ScareWare Purveyors
In our second Federal Trade Commission story of the day, Gary Warner, Information Security Blogger – as well as a significantly more proficient writer than yours truly…mxh – over at Cybercrime & Doing Time, reports the FTC has moved, in a big way, against ScareWare purveyors. The CyberCrime and Doing Time blog is this week’s MustRead.
From CyberCrime and Doing Time: “FTC Moves against Fake AntiVirus “ScareWare” companies – Microsoft may be getting all the press this month about Fake Antivirus products, but the Federal Trade Commission deserves some high praise as well. We’ll get to the FTC stuff below, but first I wanted to mention that most of the press I’ve seen on the Microsoft announcement focused on Spectacular Big Numbers instead of focusing on the actual facts in their announcement…”
- FTC Halts Massive Scam That Tricks Consumers Into Buying Anti-Virus Software [Anti-Virus]
- Court Stops “Scareware” Scam That Tricks Consumers Into Buying Anti-Virus Software [Scams]
- Ha! Face! FTC seeks to permanently bar bullshit scareware marketing, freezes offenders’ assets
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