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How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software

Author : admin Published: October 2nd, 2011
How Two Scammers Built an Empire Hawking Sketchy Software

Creating fear and then profiting from it, where have I heard that before? Sundin had already written some firewall software called Computershield. It wasn’t as effective as mainstream antivirus programs, but it didn’t have to be; the genius would be in the sales pitch. After rebranding it WinAntiVirus, IMI began buying pop-up ads that blared [...]

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