Fighting Scareware AKA helping clueless windoze users

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Fighting Scareware AKA helping clueless windoze users

Post by Patrick » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:45 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7645420.stm
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Re: Fighting Scareware AKA helping clueless windoze users

Post by MattKingUSA » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:48 am

They should offer a software package that detects fake virus software for $20.00. That should fix those windows users up.
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Re: Fighting Scareware AKA helping clueless windoze users

Post by jturning » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:44 am

This is a gem from the article:
Microsoft estimates that half of the computer crashes reported by callers to its customer support lines can be blamed on spyware messing up machines.
So Microsoft blames half of support line crash reports on spyware. I'm wondering what the other half are?

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