Friday, August 26, 2011

The More Fake Antivirus Encountered




Internet users commonly use the wifi service requested in order to be more careful.According anitivirus company Symantec warned of the risk of the virus in a public room.

"Public facilities such as wifi is in fact much more vulnerable to compromised byhackers, and insert a fake antivirus, to fool users," explained Symantec's senior NickJohnston. In fact, he claimed to find a terminal in the larger airports in the UK that its security systems were using fake antivirus aka "scareware".

According to him, using scareware, fake anti-virus malware will insert a duty todisable or remove the antivirus is legal. So they are free to install illegal software on the user's PC.

"Scareware is a type of malware or hackers can force computer users to use the full version infected with software that can eradicate the virus fictitious,". When the software is not forcibly installed by hackers, it will easily rip and stealpersonal information such as bank accounts, email accounts, social medianetworking, through personal accounts.

"Be careful to use wifi in public areas, a weapon that is safe to avoid the trap of cyber criminals,"

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