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FTC squashes fake virus scanning pop-ups; at least some of them
Dec 13, 2008
Matt Burns
The all mighty FTC came down on five virus scanning programs that attempted to dupe computer novices into thinking their system was infected by a life-running, credit stealing virus. The ruseĀ involve