Just another rogue program, but sometimes we need reminders to be careful of our choices. These folks are really bold, I might add, asking $80 for a copy of their worthless product!
This comes from computerworld.com.
"Scammers are trying to trick Windows users into paying to fix bogus hard drive errors that have apparently erased important files, a researcher said today.
The con is a variant of "scareware," also called "rogueware," software that pretends to be legitimate but actually is just a sales pitch based on spooking users into panicking. Most scareware masquerades as antivirus software."
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