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Scareware. Dialog from SpySheriff, designed to scare users into installing the rogue software. Scareware is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted software [1] (or products). Scareware is part of a class of malicious software that ...
Tapsnake is a scareware scam involving coercion to buy protection from a non-existent computer virus that has been distributed in various ways. [1] It was offered as a game, malware / spyware included transmitting sundry information, particularly GPS location information to unauthorized third parties. The name Tapsnake comes from the computer ...
Due to a bug in the virus code, the virus fails to erase CMOS information as intended. ARCV-n: DOS 1992-10/1992-11 England, United Kingdom ARCV Group ARCV-n is a term for a large family of viruses written by the ARCV group. Alureon TDL-4, TDL-1, TDL-2, TDL-3, TDL-TDSS Windows Botnet: 2007 Estonia: JD virus Autostart Autostart.A—D Classic Mac ...
Two people involved with an international cybercrime operation that raked in millions with 'scareware' -- computer programs that pop up with fake warnings of badware infection, then bully users ...
Scareware: Claims your computer has a virus, then “scares” you to pay for fake antivirus software to remove it. Keylogging and screen scraping: Secretly records every keystroke and/or your ...
t. e. Spyware (a portmanteau for spying software) is any software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send it to another entity in a way that harms the user by violating their privacy, endangering their device's security, or other means.
t. e. Malware (a portmanteau of malicious software) [1] is any software intentionally designed to cause disruption to a computer, server, client, or computer network, leak private information, gain unauthorized access to information or systems, deprive access to information, or which unknowingly interferes with the user's computer security and ...
Zeus is a Trojan horse malware package that runs on versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. [1] Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the United ...