Scareware sites to pop up with Swine flu epidemic

This was to be expected when it comes to something that most people are worried about:

I'm sure it won't be long before purveyors of rogue anti-virus products begin using search engine optimization techniques around the term "swine flu" to drive people to sites that try to scare people into buying the worthless software.

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I am sure myself that this will undoubtedly start showing up in SEO routines.  This will most likely be like the Pifts.exe [intlink id="3114" type="post"]scareware that popped up after the scare[/intlink].

This is just a matter of time before  someone tries to either sale you something or trick you into watching a video that supposed to be helpful.  The Video will most likely try telling you need to [intlink id="2991" type="post"]install a fake codec or update Flash[/intlink].

Your best advice is if you get to a site that wants you to install something just to hit the back button or close down your browser.   Never install software from a site you just game to without doing a little research.

I would also assume that there would be [intlink id="2970" type="post"]scareware sites that will pop up in search engines[/intlink] to scare you into buying fake anti-virus software, claiming you have a virus.  You can bet in no time flat that there will be some kinda of search term that will want to scare the user into buying something that really isn't.   I would always recommend the [intlink id="2205" type="page"]free versions of Anti-virus[/intlink], if you can't afford the paid.  This way you are safer then if you didn't have any anti-virus.   I'd Also recommend a [intlink id="2205" type="page"]Free Firewalls[/intlink] also to help protect your computer from contacting any malicious site without your knowledge.

Be on the lookout for sites that do this, you can also discuss sites you have seen that have done this in my Forums this way you can help other users out and prevent people from being scammed.