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Google study: Fake antivirus is 15 percent of all malware

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
14 years ago2,388 views

Source:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20003340-245.html

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

From the article:

" A rise in fake antivirus offerings on Web sites around the globe shows that scammers are increasingly turning to social engineering to get malware on computers rather than exploiting holes in software, a Google study to be released on Tuesday indicates.

Fake antivirus--false pop-up warnings designed to scare money out of computer users--represents 15 percent of all malware that Google detects on Web sites, according to 13-month analysis the company conducted between January 2009 and February 2010.
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Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

If you want to read the study [.pdf]:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/leet10.pdf

ianf [PersonRank 10]

14 years ago #

Juha-Matti, does the study break down the results per hardware or operating-system platform? It's been ages I've even been "offered" any anti-viral protection on the Mac. Perhaps Gmail is just too good at flagging it down as spam and moving straight away to the spam folder?

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