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Scareware

Scareware comes in two main flavours; the first tries to convince the user that his computer is invected with some non-existent malware, scaring the user into purchasing the author’s virus removal utility. The utility is nonfunctional or some additional form of malware.

The second form tries to convince the user that the computer has been or is being used for an illegal act such as being part of a bot net or storing child pornography. Again, the objective is to scare the user into paying to cure something that is not really there.