Windows 8 launched to great fanfare only a week ago, but it is already under attack.
The scareware scammers have already jumped on the new operating system, pushing out a “Win 8 Security System” that warns victims about a series of non-existent threats on their shiny computers, according to a post on Trend Micro’s Security Intelligence blog on Wednesday. The scareware informs users that the software needed to be registered in order to remove the infection, wrote Gelo Abendan, a member of Trend Micro’s technical communications team.
“The malware displays a fake scanning result to intimidate users to purchase the fake antivirus program—just like your run-of-the-mill FAKEAV variant,” Abendan wrote.