Web Security Review

Scareware, or a form of malware that tricks customers with bogus messages that leads users to sites that install fake security software for a fee. These tactics have long been used by hackers to get hard earned cash from people’s pockets for nothing. The software you install in turn asks you to get more and more software till you finally get it that the whole thing was a sham, with your cash long gone and the errors they were reporting. Many of these sites have been targeted by law enforcement in the past few years but there are still some persistent ones that manage to survive the best efforts of law enforcement agents.
Botnets and other malware spreading sites are still working to go through the screen of protection we have installed at home and on company servers but they are being traced. One question man have asked is why they cannot be stopped, the answer is as diverse as people who make them for they have the ability to shut-down their operations at the slightest notice of some nosy program rooting it out. Though it needs a base of operations or a server to do it’s handiwork, cutting that off or even shutting it down can have a copy of itself sent of to some unprotected computer in some far away place, to awaken again when it’s creator senses the heat is off.

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