However, those phone numbers lead directly to scammers. In the second scenario, the fake virus scan might claim that threats were detected and will then load up a product checkout page to purchase ...

It looks very real.” Fake anti-virus scams lure users in by offering a “free” virus scan, which often falsely alerts the victims that their computer is infected with malware.

If the visitor came from a Google search page, then the malicious webpage would present a fake anti-virus scan window to try and persuade the visitor that their PC had been infected by malware. It ...

Antivirus software company McAfee Inc. said today that a new version of its VirusScan Enterprise software contains so-called intrusion-prevention features that can protect computers from attacks ...

VirusScan Enterprise 8.0i will include a variety of tools, such as buffer-overflow protection, file and directory protection and port blocking, said Parveen Jain, executive vice president of ...