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10-10-2008, 03:21 PM

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Beware of Registry Cleaner Scareware Scams

Photo by: Lu_luWashington Attorney General’s office is suing two Texan companies for allegedly running an internet scam. It is prosecuting them for scaring people into paying useless pieces of code, a tactic called Scareware in scam jargon. The two companies, Branch Software and Alpha Red, Inc., marketed a program called ‘Registry Cleaner XP’ online.The program [...]

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