Windows 8 launched to great fanfare only a week ago, but it is already under attack.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“The malware displays a fake scanning result to intimidate users to purchase the fake antivirus program\u2014just like your run-of-the-mill FAKEAV variant,” Abendan wrote.<\/p>\n
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