Scammers Making '$15m A Month' On Fake Antivirus

Franklin · Oct 16, 2008

Figures suggesting that fake anti-virus packages are allowing cybercrooks to make more than €10m a month are been described as little better than guesswork. Vendors across the industry are warning that scarewore packages - which attempt to trick would-be marks into handing over their hard-earned cash for packages that claim to resolve fictitious infections - are a growing problem.

But estimates by Panda Security that 30 million Windows PCs have been infected with fake antivirus programs have met with skepticism from a rival vendor. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, question Panda's assumption in reaching its figures, which he suggests are little better than back of the envelope calculations.
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Foxfired · Oct 18, 2008

Wow, that's incredible. Well i understand why they are so prevalent. Viruses started out at just pranks by developers with nothing better to do with their time. Now it's big business.

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