anti spywares that should not be in your computer(6)

False security alerts
Many rogue applications now couple false positives with realistic and dramatic looking system security alerts. They may change the desktop background to a dramatic warning, continuously or sporadically redirect web browsers to a page that informs the user that they are infected and need to purchase a program. They may also change the homepage to a security warning, or bombard the user with continuous security alerts from the task bar, often using the yellow triangle with an exclamation point used by Windows to denote a system error. Some even go to the point of changing the screensaver to the BSOD, to make the user think that windows has crashed due to malware.
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