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Beware of latest "scareware"

Please be aware of a new ransom trojan - it informs you via "scareware" that they have detected that you have been sharing copyrighted material and face huge fines and/or jail time unless you pay a "pre-trial settlement" of $400... :

• the warning won't go away - will see every time you reboot
• they even made a fake website to "back up" their story
• the email address used to register the domain has been used on other trojans in the past

See screen shots and more details at the f-secure blog entry for this. This blog is an excellent source for all of the nonsense going on...

 

Related resources

• fake copyright scare of f-secure blog