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	Hackers prey on fear of worms

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4-19-2009 7:57 PM

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<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/b58c6f4f-b1ee-45e1-b28a-23ee8a1181a9/ACCCDDE0-C7E3-442C-B8D2-C8B3ED17F266/" 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.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/hackers-prey-on-fear-of-worms/1490384.aspx?storypage=0" href="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/hackers-prey-on-fear-of-worms/1490384.aspx?storypage=0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.canberratimes.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/hackers-prey-on-fear-of-worms/1490384.aspx?storypage=0"><H1>Hackers prey on fear of worms</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/hackers-prey-on-fear-of-worms/1490384.aspx?storypage=0"><P>   ''Rogue security software is the No1 threat worldwide,'' the general manager of the Trustworthy Computing Group at Microsoft, George Stathakopoulos, said.    ''If you think about the Conficker case, how many people went looking for a security solution and downloaded rogue malware?''</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/hackers-prey-on-fear-of-worms/1490384.aspx?storypage=0"><P>   Rogue security software referred to as ''scareware'' pretends to check computers for viruses, and then claims to find dangerous infections that the program will fix for a fee.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/hackers-prey-on-fear-of-worms/1490384.aspx?storypage=0"><P>   Two ''rogue families'' of scareware were detected in 1.5million computers, Microsoft said. Another form of scareware was found on 4.4million computers, a rise of 66per cent from the previous six-month period.    </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/hackers-prey-on-fear-of-worms/1490384.aspx?storypage=0"><P>''That means when users downloaded the software they probably gave away credit card numbers and got infected,'' Stathakopoulos said. ''That's a double hit.''</P></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/ACCCDDE0-C7E3-442C-B8D2-C8B3ED17F266/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.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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