PART III
PREVENTION TECHNOLOGIES
Case Study: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
Hundreds of prevention technologies and methodologies have been developed to solve the growing malware problem. State-of-the-art solutions are always available to enterprise customers who have the budget to pay for them. But for common home users this is generally not the case. Most of the time home users are stuck with simple endpoint solutions. There is nothing wrong with this, but you have to be wary because malware writers can take advantage of this situation by disguising their malware creation as a security solution.
Scareware
Scareware is a type of malware that scares a user into downloading software that poses as a malware solution but is, in fact, malware. A scareware ...
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