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		<title><![CDATA[Spooky Halloween - scareware or crimeware?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=71042&messageID=1367659&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Who's to be scared?Which platforms are affected by the things that you mentioned Conficker and rogue AV scareware? Please let us know the whole picture so it is clear who needs to be concerned about this and who doesn't!Thank you in advance.I cosign      n/t.While you're...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:20:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just one more reason not to use these lame social networking sites. nt...RE: Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topicsThese scum seem to have a fascination with JayZ. I've had two "people" follow me just today, and in both cases they were "listening to JayZ" blah-blah-blah. Didn't take very long to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:34:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The ultimate guide to scareware protection]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking into consideration the fact that 99% of ongoing scareware campaigns rely on "visual social engineering", this gallery presents some of the most popular templates used by cybercrime gangs in an attempt to trick the end user into installing the fake security software. by Dancho Danchev]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:36:37 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scareware goes Green]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was Al Gorethe first to fall for this?Looks like the malware people are getting smarter......in their targeting of people who as a group are more likely to fall for this kind of nonsense.RE: Scareware goes GreenI am sure that these scam artists are laughing at the stupidity of those fools...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:39:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scareware goes Green]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=4199]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Malicious pseudo-environmentalists have come up with a new social engineering tactic aiming to improve the profit margins of their fake antivirus software releases - by promising to donate $2 from every purchase for saving the Amazonian green forests.    The new scareware template branded as "Green-AV Premier Edition...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:24:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scareware pops-up at FoxNews]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scareware pops-up at FoxNewsFox News IS scareware.ntntGotta Love it ....According to the SCAREWARE site that loaded from Fox News, my LINUX box has a C and a D drive and I am heavily infected with Win32 Virus ....I am laffing so hard, I now have tears ... what smucks!!!!At least...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:13:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Scareware meets ransomware: "Buy our fake product and we'll decrypt the files"]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scareware meets ransomware: "Buy our fake product and we'll decrypt the files"I imagine this is targeted ONLY to Windows platforms :-)As soon as I read this I looked over at my wife and said "God I'm glad we left Windows!" The more I read of this crap the happier I...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:11:00 -0700</pubDate>
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