BCS - 26/04/2007
Hackers are increasingly attempting to trick consumers into buying software that they believe to be genuine anti-spyware applications, according to one firm.
There are currently four fake protection applications on the market for every one genuine product, download site Snapfiles told Vnunet.com.
This fake software can appear to be genuine to users while providing false scan results, failing to clean the system of existing spyware and occasionally installing malware onto the user’s PC itself.
According to Harvard Business School assistant professor and spyware researcher Ben Edelman, fake anti-spyware software is ‘a huge problem’, with another download site, Tucows, also telling Vnunet.com that it believes the bulk of security software to be fake.
Statistics from the Federation Against Software Theft, which was founded in 1984, show that
British firms have paid more than £1.8 million in fines for using unlicensed applications to the Business Software Alliance.
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