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By Davey Winder in Editorial

Posted in phishing, Blog, Security, Internet on October 16, 2008 at 12:47 pm

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Fake antivirus software is nothing new. Indeed, one South Korean chap called Lee Shin-ja was recently arrested and charged with doing the virtual equivalent of running into a room, shouting fire and then selling fire extinguishers that might or might not work. He was charged with selling a total of 1.26 million licenses for an antivirus product to clean computers of non-existent infections in a three year period. A nice little earner that is said to have netted him around

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