[Sgt_Schultze]

This industry is one deserving extinction.

[KoRn]

/mark

[cripplecreek]

No kidding. I fell for one back in my new to the net days.

[mkjessup]

This industry is one deserving extinction

Absolutely correct. And the damn perps ought to be looking at some hard time (7 to 10 years minimum) learning how to use an abacus instead of a PC. The writers, distributors and sellers of 'scareware' are so low on the food chain they even make bottom feeders look like discriminating partakers of the finest cuisine.

[LiberConservative]

Good. Too many newbs fall for stuff like this.

[CottShop]

Great- now the scareware makers are goign to go for a bailout from congress

[Moonman62]

Probably Libertarians.

[relictele]

Forget the industry - hang the offenders.

[JimRed]

What a cash cow; create and distribute malware then cure it for a price! I had a repeated notice disguised as an internet explorer warning that I had an infection; but my daily scans on my anti-virus software showed none.

An update from IE cured it.

[yorkie]

Somehow, these nasty scammers got into my computer, too. Every two minutes a box would come up, warning of 32 “critical threats” to my computer. To remove them, you had a choice. Type in your email address or use pay-pal. That is when I called my ‘Geek Boy’. He said this bug is keeping him running from dawn to dusk, to remove the virus from his client’s computers.

And, guess what? It said it was a warning from “Windows”.

[Ellendra]

I got warnings like this a few days ago. Norton couldn’t find anything, updates didn’t help. Eventually I gleaned enough from the geek forums discussing it that I was able to remove it manually. That involved finding the file (it was named “Google” and was a hidden folder), renaming it so it wouldn’t keep running automatically (you can’t delete a file that’s in use), rebooting with the network cable unplugged (otherwise it would try to run still, throwing out error messages saying “File not found”, which was apparently enough to be considered still “in use”) and then finally I was able to delete the whole Google folder.

As a non-techie, I was proud of myself.

[ShadowAce]

[Still Thinking]

Asshats.