There are many sites which users are clicking on and downloading fake antivirus programs, in some cases they are also installed as drive-by downloads.

The effect is that users get a warning shield in their taskbar and pop-ups saying that 'you have a security problem' or 'your computer is at risk' and a prompt to download the rogue software followed by a scan which will find many infections that do not exist and then users are asked to purchase the fake software, which only adds to the problem.

Anti-Virus programs do NOT remove these threats as they are malware and NOT viruses.

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Happy New Year all