0 Beware of Scareware

Scareware is a type of software that frightens you into downloading and purchasing certain rogue products (for e.g. fake antivirus, fake firewall). Scareware frightens you into installing the rogue product by displaying screens of your computer being attacked and claiming to be the solution to that attack. Typically, they are the result of scripts stitched into legitimate, hacked web sites, or into banner ads. Once installed, the scareware can invade your computer and attempt to record your keystrokes and banking/personal information. It can also attempt to take remote control of your machine to serve as a spam-sending Zombie robot.

The safest way to avoid being a victim to scareware is to:

1.Not click on any of the buttons within the browser window and instead, close the entire browser screen.

2.Run an antivirus scan immediately to ensure that new viruses have not been installed by the software.