FTC Cracking Down on Pop-Ups
You’ve undoubtedly seen these ads pop up during your web browsing experience. Click OK (as I know from your emails that many of you have done) and you’re actually installing spyware, not removing it. The scam comes a few days later, when you’re asked to pay a bunch of money in order to remove “additional” infections… the ones you just installed. Even the most legitimate sites online tend to carry ads like this from time to time, which makes them one of the most nefarious web scams running. More typical spyware pop-ups are relegated to the less respectable parts of the web, but these “anti-spyware” scams are everywhere.