What is Scareware?

Professor David S. Wall, School of Criminal Justice Studies and Information Societies, University of Leeds, talks about the growing threat of Scareware.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• scareware;
• cybercrime;
• security;
• internet;
• rogue;
• misleading;
• phishing;

[OmegaWolfVideos]

there always has to be some assholes who ruin the internet for everyone :/

[lrd9999]

Google is half the problem here. Their results (especially image results) are full of sites with this malware, but they don't appear to be doing much about it. Bing blocks all the ones I've found. Google should have a "flag as malware" button for each search result and an algorithm for prioritizing, investigating and blocking flagged sites.

[portalpwner]

use your cyber gumption! hey i like this guy, thanks!

[Robtehman]

I Believe there was a scareware that basicly came up with a pop up that said "Erase your hard-drive?" followed by only two buttons that said OK. Regardless of what you picked, all your data would remain intact.

[Mr123Gibson]

rogue security software fucking sucks it won't let me do anything!

[MANN188]

This is a good video, but to make it more convenient, try putting a few examples in these. :)

[sanriver12]

why not actually show "the little alert screen"?