You may have heard of malware, a malicious software that may damage your computer system, but have you heard of scareware? The scareware may not damage your computer, but it could scare users into ...

Computer experts are warning users about those pop-up ads that say a device is infected with a virus. It looks authentic, but it’s not. The fake virus alerts are called “scareware”, because ...

Microsoft is rolling out a new tool dubbed “scareware blocker,” which uses machine learning and computer vision to identify a very pervasive type of online scam. “Scareware” has blighted ...

It looks serious. It feels urgent. But it’s all fake. This is scareware — a scam designed to make you believe your computer has been compromised. The goal is to pressure you into calling a ...

Have you ever encountered a web page that claimed your PC had a virus and asked you to download antivirus software? That type of scam is known as scareware, and it's a threat that Microsoft is ...

Has your computer or device screen ever been bombarded with pop-ups warning you about a malware compromise? Then you’ve probably encountered scareware. At its heart, it’s a scam where the ...

On this week's Tech Tips, we discuss scareware and how to avoid getting ... that generates pop-up messages indicating that your computer has been hacked or compromised. There will be a phone ...

Paddle.com and its U.S. subsidiary will pay $5 million to settle Federal Trade Commission (FTC) allegations that the company facilitated deceptive tech-support schemes that harmed many U.S. consumers, ...

That produces warnings pretending to come from Apple Security that claim your Mac computer has been hit with spyware. To make the scareware seem legitimate, the pop-ups from Apple Security will ...

Scareware blocker uses a machine learning model that runs on the local computer," Microsoft said. "The model uses computer vision to compare full screen pages to thousands of sample scams that the ...

Microsoft said it used thousands of real-world sample scams to train the machine learning model that underpins scareware ...