Spam is unavoidable: It clutters your phone call history and chokes your email inbox. Like spam, scareware is another annoyance that seems to go hand-in-hand with internet access. It’s why you should ...

We live in fast-paced and often worrying times, and fraudsters are primed to take advantage. Fear can be a powerful weapon and scammers know how to instill it in people and coerce them into taking ...

One of the most cunning ploys to get people to download malware is rogue antispyware. Also known as scareware, the applications are installed through poisoned links embedded in search results. The ...

Throughout the last two years, scareware (fake security software), quickly emerged as the single most profitable monetization strategy for cybercriminals to take advantage of. Due to the aggressive ...

A Rogue Program is a program that pretends to be a legitimate programs, but instead displays false information in order to trick or scare you into purchasing it. Most Rogue programs state that they ...

Scareware Horrors Scareware can attack at home and in the office. "I'm an IT pro, have been for 30 years," says Harry Rife from Holt, Calif. "We've had 15-plus machines get the 'AntiVirus 2008' or ...

Windows Defender, built into every Windows 10 PC, is considered the bare minimum for securing your PC from viruses and malware. (See where it ranked against the competition in our comprehensive ...

Microsoft said this week that it has evidence of a link between the fake security software now plaguing Mac users and a hard-charging family of similar software on Windows. Phony security software, ...