scareware

Products using advertisements such as these are often considered scareware.

The data suggested that up to a million machines were infected with scareware.

It is generally credited to be the first scareware program of its type.

In recent findings some scareware is not affiliated with any other installed programs.

This advertisement was not well received, most likely due to the scareware tactic involved.

Scareware is a problem, but the same characteristics that make it function may also be the seeds of its downfall.

What these things do, though, they're scareware.

Some rogue security software overlaps in function with scareware by also:

Anxiety-based scareware puts users in situations where there are no positive outcomes.

Scareware is software that is marketed by creating fear in users.

Mac Defender is scareware and plays on user psychology.

Research by Google discovered that scareware was using some of its servers to check for internet connectivity.

Since 2010 Stinger has specifically targeted fake alert threats, a form of scareware.

And now we have that for this kind of - sort of this new class of scareware.

In some scenarios it is possible to become infected with scareware even if the user attempts to cancel the notification.

Serious scareware applications qualify as rogue software.

The companies and individuals named here have allegedly deceived customers through the marketing and distribution of scareware.

In addition, the scareware initiatives we've typically seen to-date all leverage the brand recognition of legitimate companies.

There's a fake Blue Screen of Death scareware.

The issue is further clouded by the fact that malware and scareware are often associated with utilities of this type.

Malicious "scareware" pop-ups can cost businesses and consumers time, money, and frustration.

Another variation encourages a victim to install Scareware on an unrelated computer system at the same address as the Phone connection.

And the number one way that malware gets money from people, and this also we've talked about many times, is so-called "scareware."

Another example of Scareware is Smart Fortress.

I suspect if you are unfamiliar with how computers work and the typical scams that exist, it's easy to be tricked by official looking scareware.