Scareware

Fox 11 news aired this story in January '09. "Scareware" is malicious software that tricks a person into buying fake anti-virus software by displaying false reports of viruses. Luckily, your friends here @ Rockstar Computers have the removal of this pest down firm.

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Science & Technology

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• Scareware

[RockstarComputers]

Jailbreak - Even though you might be free of "viruses" (for now) you'll still be susceptable to the same internet attacks, scams, email blasters....good help is hard to find without paying through nose on top of it all.

[RockstarComputers]

Jailbreak - Buying a Mac is a good option if you want to be completely controlled by Apple, Inc and you want to stumble blindly across the internet like an idiot and click on everything you see. Sure go ahead, but before you do, make sure you have over $1,000 in your budget(which will buy you a Mac with the power of a $400 PC).

[RockstarComputers]

Kodiakfred - good advice, sort of....Mbam is good, but will not remove even close to everything. Plus it is targeted more by malware creators than any other scanner out there. Most of these newer attacks have code in them to prevent mbam from running. Then what? We fix those every day.

[RockstarComputers]

You have 2 choices - Find a real professional like us to remove all of viruses, spyware and malware at once, and get you protected for future infections. Or go with Karpaneen's advice and re-install your OS, lose everything, or backup everything (if you can, including the viruses) then transfer it all back on, wasting countless hours of time and you'll probably transfer malicious software back on anyway + you still won't be protected.

[RockstarComputers]

Karpaneen - Everyone cannot "just reformat". That's Best Buy mentality.

[RockstarComputers]

Apple computers have potential threats of their own kid. Why do all the major Anti-virus companies have scanners for mac? (besides that they are the ones who write most viruses and malware)

[Sacred809]

Yeah, my computer got hit by .pqm

Its a fake anti-virus named

VISTA INTERNET SECURITY 2011

[ltisbeast]

There are ways out of it than paying for it. It's called "REAL" anti-malware programs. AVG Avast Comodo Ad-Aware Malware-Bytes Mc-Afee Norton Avira If you've never heard of it its a scam. I feel bad for the people who get infected but you have to have common sense. I always research before downloading or buying something off the Internet. You can remove most of these easily for free with Malwarebytes, or with something else in safe mode with networking. YouTube is a great place to find remov

[Karpaneen]

Lol. You just have to format your computer if the scareware attacks to your computer. I can't beleive those women on the news paid for this scareware.

[kodiakfred140]

I feel for these people. But there is a fairly easy way to get rid if these things without buying the software. Malwarebytes is a good one to start with.

[FreeDownloads1]

hmm i wonder if it can affect a new installation of windows