FBI: Rogue Antivirus Scammers Have Made $150M

They’re the scourge of the Internet right now and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation says they’ve also raked in more than US$150 million for scammers. Security experts call them rogue antivirus programs. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre issued a warning over this fake antivirus software Friday, saying that Web surfers should be wary of sudden pop-up windows that report security problems on their computers