Monday, April 20, 2009

Rogue anti spyware software. Avoid having any of these on your computer(11)

Lawsuits
Recently, lawmakers as well as private and public citizens have attempted to shut down vendors of these companies. XPdefender, WinSpywareProtect, WinDefender, WinFixer, MalwareCore, and Antivirus 2009 have been named in lawsuits. Notably due to the vendors of those programs creating extremely similar names, slogans & user-interfaces, all in an effort to confuse users about names of legitimate security programs, EXAMPLE: Norton Internet Security and Windows Defender (formally called Microsoft Antispyware) confused with MS Antivirus.
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