Hackers are tricking people with false warning saying that a computer infected with a Trojan, and users can buy the fake anti-virus product.

Several sites were closed as the authorities in the U.S. took measures to stop the sellers’ scareware.

However, despite the closures, the number of sites continues to grow at one of the expert, it is the “biggest threat facing computer users today.

Matthew Woolley Independent Chairman of the Association of Computer Professionals, which represents the independent computer retail and repair shops in Britain, said hackers had been playing the fear of people.

“Lincoln is my own repair shop, we have had more than 300 users over the past six months come with a computer infected by fake antivirus software.

This week we have seen fake AVG Anti-Virus was a good one of my engineers were convinced that the real thing, “said Woolley.

“If we can not say, what is there hope for Joe Public?”

Hackers have been employing more sophisticated tricks to dupe users buying their fake software.

At the beginning of February, 2009, hackers used counterfeit parking tickets for cars are a URL directing them to “see the pictures of parking information on their preferences,” that actually downloaded a Trojan which then prompted the user to install fake anti-virus software.

Last weekend, a Facebook application to spread among the users Virally caused an error message to Facebook users.

Original Source - BBC NEWS

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