The first article of this blog series provided an introduction to rogue applications that parade as fake antivirus scanners and/or fake “system cleaners.” Once installed, these misleading applications attempt to scare the user into believing that his or her computer is infected with dozens or more threats. Today, I’m going to continue discussing the ways in which malicious applications make it onto a victim’s system. In this article I will show you the distribution vectors for fake scanner Web pages.

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