Twitter hackers: Fake Antivirus Software on the rise

[hadmad]

Twitter hackers: Fake Antivirus Software on the rise

Posted: 22 Sep 2009 07:21 AM PDT

Twitter hackers: Fake Antivirus Software on the rise

It has been revealed that spammers are frequently using computer-generated Twitter accounts to post messages, in an attempt to entice users to click links to a website which hosts fake Windows antivirus software.

According to Computer World, the Twitter accounts uses varied usernames and are designed to represent U.S Twitter personalities. Other tactics used by the dodgy accounts include the use of customized wallpapers, which try to portray the idea that it is a real person’s account.

CW reports that these Tweets then provide links to sites that try to trick unsuspecting users into downloading and installing fake security software, often called “scareware” because they fool users with fake infection warnings.

Read the full article over at CW for more info on this. Let us know if you have experienced anything like this while using Twitter.

Scammers auto-generate Twitter accounts to spread scareware

 

[dee]

why are people that sad, get a life join TK instead far more intresting.

 

[dan-ger-ous]

Cheers for the info had, pretty tough for those who do not quite know there way around the web yet and then to come across such tricks to ruin there experience.