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AntiVirus Popups on the rise, seen this before, butnow with legitimate Antivirus brands

I wouldn’t necessarily call this a scam, however maybe now a day it is possible. The term that was used when we first saw this was called scareware.

The basics of this is to get you to download a program, in this articles case Macafee, and pay for a subscription that you probably don’t need.

These popups are like the ones claiming that they were AntiVirus2022, as an example, and got you to click the download now button which would in fact get someone to download a program.

These programs are called scareware because it flags legitimate files that are needed for your computer to run and they will go ahead and tell you that files are infected even if they aren’t.

While Mcafee is the target here, they could use any Antivirus name they want in this field.

The article is titled Antivirus warning: What to do if you see this warning from McAfee and is something we need to review again.

Thanks komando staff for bringing this to our attention again. Its a must need in this stragne time on the internet.

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AntiVirus Popups on the rise, seen this before, butnow with legitimate Antivirus brands was released on September 19, 2022 at 9:55 am by tech in article commentary.
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1. Comment by crashmaster date 19 September 2022 alle 13:13 (),

   Yeah.
   I haven’t had this but I have been troubleshooting a family member that has updates and supposed popups all the day long.
   I finally traced it back to a game which is loaded with ads because she doesn’t want to subscribe to it.
   Even though its a card game that only costs something like a couple bucks a month she plays daily and several times at that.
   In her case its only on her game and yeah while its not the best situation its at least not something she has installed.
   This is good because she has done that in the past.
   Its not on her computer but I had to check.
   Scareware is just bad news.
   However I do wander if scareware was targeted like at people that don’t keep good security practices if that would educate maybe.
   I used to have an old magazine with tips and it had a program you could tune your computer.
   At every step of tuning it would give you things you should do to make things safer, tools you could use, tips and well a load of extras.
   Half of which I knew.
   However every tip and article I was told to look at I read and all their linked content to.
   I didn’t buy any of the programs but where a free one was found or low cost thing I did actually get it and use it for a while.
   one was the old langa.com brouser tune, shame it died.
   I really found it informative.
   Rarely do you actually recieve things that go, your system is secure but could be made better whith this.
   Because of these, ooh and here are some apps that do these and that and this and well you need to pay for some of these but their reviews look good and I have used them.
   Of course rarely have I actually had a system screwup with a solution.

   Once I had a server I was working on actually crash, because the display was not working right.
   Never mind, I was recommended to update the drivers and firmware because the manufacturer said so, not stupid microsoft that may or may not work.
   Better yet, I was given a link which on clicking downloaded the latest driver, and then I manually installed it and bang it was solved.
   Lenovo vantage sort of does this but well.

   Never again like this though.
   Thats a real shame.
   I had to abandon software packages I used to use because they relied heavily on spyware and subscriptions.
   I rarely used it and ended up mostly with mangled system with spyware.
   Sadly I have brought a good bit of software which I amost never use and which I upgrade from time to time.
   I have a free software which can do streams, its not that good but it at least does what I need.
   Then again, never say never.
   Look at my articles on ccleaner.
   Serveys you never know what or who reads them.
   Even if you get multiple serveys to handle.
   I wasn’t expecting them to actually man up, and retrain, hire a consultant who asked me to tell him exactly what I thought in all the detail.
   Which I did with all the swearing and issues I could muster.
   The guy did it 3 times.
   The issues were fixed within 3 months.
   And while there are a few issues still going forward the program does work.
   Of course thats an extreme case but this shows people do read serveys.

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