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What is scare ware?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 6/6/2023

Scareware is software that tries to trick people into sending money, based on the suggestion that something bad will happen if they don't. The most common scareware scams are "free sample" antivirus programs that produce reports that claim that the user's computer is infected with various forms of malware and urge the user to purchase the full antivirus program to clean up the problems. The cleanup program is usually just as fake as the virus detector.

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