| On average, Sophos identifies five new scareware websites every day, with the figure peaking at over 20 per day on occasion. |
| Symantec said that scareware vendors go to great lengths to initimidate and trick web users in to purchasing this malicious software. |
| Symantec also believes some people distributing the scareware could be earning more than a million dollars each year. |
| This past weekend, even the New York Times was duped into running a scareware ad on their site. |
| Just about any newsworthy tragedy is likely to be used as a theme to promote scareware portals these days, one of the easiest mechanisms for cybercrooks to make money. |
| The people behind the adverts encourage Apple Macintosh users to download a piece of scareware called MacSweeper. |
