FBI Shuts Down Major Scareware Gang

Trailrunner7 writes "The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation, which involved authorities in the United States, Germany, France, Latvia, the UK and several other nations, was designed to disrupt the scareware ecosystem that has been preying on users' security fears in an effort to scam them out of millions of dollars in licensing fees for useless or outright malicious software."

Now they've removed the bin.laden filter

[VIPERsssss]

...Echelon has more clock cycles available.

well crap!

[uncanny]

Now who's going to fix the virus that a virus scanner on a porn-site-popup tells me that i have?

I can't believe this.

[Bobakitoo]

I can't believe they have shutdown Symentec. I am forwarding this to everyone!