FBI Makes Two Arrests in Massive Scareware Scam Ring

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Two of the ringleaders in that ever-present phishing or scareware click and redirect scam have been arrested. Before the two were apprehended, they managed to bilk about 1M victims to the tune of $74M. The FBI has not released any further details on the arrests.

Countries that contributed to the crackdowns are Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Netherlands, Cyprus, France, Lithuania, Romania, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the U.S.
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Yeah. That's a terrible bug. I've had to battle that on several occasions on my brother in laws computers. It's easier just to format the HD and install fresh. It's that evil.
 
ICOM said:
Yeah. That's a terrible bug. I've had to battle that on several occasions on my brother in laws computers. It's easier just to format the HD and install fresh. It's that evil.
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Yeah...have to agree with that. Gets it's hooks in as deep as AOL used to. :p

Also kinda reminds me of the A/V 2009/10/etc scareware layout. *wonders if they're affiliated* Maybe we got rid of both bunches of bastards at the same time with this roundup!! :D
 
One can only hope that they get put in cells with some very large, very horny "Bubbas".

With as many computers that they have f*****up, it only fair that they get a bit back :p
 
They should torture them on live tv and charge to watch it on PPV I would easily payy $100 to see these guys eyeballs burnt out with a hot piece of metal.
 
There may be more and that would be the reasoning for limiting the arrest information.
 
Wow, they made $74M without having to do almost any work.

And the annoyance was temporary.

How do I get on this? :D
 
ICOM said:
Yeah. That's a terrible bug. I've had to battle that on several occasions on my brother in laws computers. It's easier just to format the HD and install fresh. It's that evil.
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No it isn't if you actually know what you are doing. Honestly it is quite easy to remove if you know the trick. I am having one of my most profitable years for AV fixes in years thanks to this little dandy. Flat 1 hour charge for removal and rarely takes more then 20 minutes of my personal time involved.
 
Yea I was suprised to see how many people opted to pay the higher price for virus removal over wiping their hard drive. Some of the times their HDD would be so bad I'd recommend them wipe it but a good portion wasn't that bad and took me 30-40 minutes top to clear it out.

Using freeware at that and using google as my instructor :D.
 
meh I havn't seen one yet that wasn't easy to get rid of.. the most annoying one currently is the Windows Recovery one which moves your start menu / programs, hides all your files on your hard drive, and does some registry changes to put policies in effect.

It's been a great year business wise, since I charge flat rate 97.50 to clean it, or 130 to format the system.
 
Since I only seem to browse [H], corp email, newegg, and amazon, I'm more or less immune to most attacks out there :D *knocks on wood*
 
LordCalin said:
meh I havn't seen one yet that wasn't easy to get rid of.. the most annoying one currently is the Windows Recovery one which moves your start menu / programs, hides all your files on your hard drive, and does some registry changes to put policies in effect.

It's been a great year business wise, since I charge flat rate 97.50 to clean it, or 130 to format the system.
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I just saw this today I think, I can't remember the name of it for the life of me but I do remember it having "kill" in the name.
 
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