<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/11534b25-0b75-4beb-8199-246d8d2fa189/2AC0DF59-2CF1-4F40-A1AE-537D3FD4DAAF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.indianinside.info/site/" href="http://www.indianinside.info/site/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.indianinside.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.indianinside.info/site/"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" colspan="2"><P>If you're looking for a Christmas present for a computer-using friend, beware of the host of misleading security applications around warning of infected systems and promising a clean up, at a price.</p> <P><A href="http://www.indianinside.info/site/images/stories/tech/fake_antispyware_software_mrantispy.jpg"><IMG width="128" height="70" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.indianinside.info/site/images/stories/tech/fake_antispyware_software_mrantispy_thumb.jpg" alt="" title="" /></A>Antispyware company Sunbelt software is picking up new sites, designed to dupe users into downloading and paying for software that is ineffective as a security tool and often a threat in itself.<BR /><DIV> For example, it spotted four toward the end of November, another on 1 December, six more on 6 December, six again 12 December, and another three yesterday.</DIV> <STRONG> Many of these scam sites and dodgy security applications are run by the same outfits, simply dressing up the same code in different colours to give the impression of a new product or service.</STRONG></p> <P><FONT color="%23ff0000">Hogan said of Symantec: 'We've gone more from police to informer'.</FONT> </p> <P>For more information, visit the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sunbelt-software.com/">Sunbelt</A> and <A target="_blank" href="http://security.symantec.com/">Symantec</A> websites.</p> <DIV class="commentBlogView"><A href="http://www.indianinside.info/site/Technology/Xclusive/Misleading_apps_gathering_for_Christmas_security_threat_200612241107/%23jc_allComments"><IMG width="16" height="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Add%20Comment" src="http://www.indianinside.info/site/mambots/content/pcajaxcomment/templates/images/comments.gif" /> Add Comment (0) </A> <A href="http://www.indianinside.info/site/Technology/Xclusive/Misleading_apps_gathering_for_Christmas_security_threat_200612241107/"><IMG width="16" height="16" border="0" align="absmiddle" alt="Read%20More" src="http://www.indianinside.info/site/mambots/content/pcajaxcomment/templates/images/page_go.gif" /> Read More </A> </DIV> </TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2AC0DF59-2CF1-4F40-A1AE-537D3FD4DAAF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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