Scammers make $ 15 million from fake Antivirus

I was just reading a new at the Register. I found out that that people who are selling fake antivirus are making over 10 million dollars in a month. These are scarework pakages that tend to trick the buyer that it will fix the infections on the computer which is creating a problem for the Computer users.
Panda estimates that over 30 Million computers worldwide is infected by a fake antivirus and has found about 7000 variant of these types of program. And they are using a fake google toolbar to promote the product.
There are alot of tricks used by scammers to scam the people as redirecting the users to a site that is selling these fake antivirus, showing users popups that they are infected with fake malware and spyware, which keeps on interupting the users browsers continously.
And Panda has found that none if these fake antivirus is good against any of the threats that they are pretending to defend against.
You can see the screenshots of these fake Antiiviruses here.
See here

YOu can also see the infection statistics worldwide
http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/Who-Wants-to-Be-a-Millionaire_3F00_.aspx

So Be aware when your are blocked by a site to download a antivirus and when a site tells your computer is infected by a spyware of a malware. DOn't trust them

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