What is A Fake Security Warning
Fake Antivirus and Rogue Security Software make an extensive use of Fake Security Warnings to trap innocent internet users. Many times, when you are browsing a website, all of a sudden, your browser start misbehaving. It starts giving you repeated warning messages and fake scan results, which show as if there are lots of spyware and malware infections in your computer.
They will show you some animated screens, which will pretend as if they are scanning your computer for possible malware infections. A casual pointer to the fact that these warning screens and messages are fake, is that these scans get complete almost within a few seconds and you are giving the scan results to announce that there are lots of serious malware infections, and you need to take urgent action to remove them all.
In most of the cases, these security warning messages are fake, scam and are used to cheat you to buy a crap piece of software, in the name of a genuine security software.
How to Avoid and Stop Fake Security Warning Messages
The most important step to avoid and stop fake security warning messages is to use a good quality antivirus software and keep all your software applications updated to the latest available released version.
If you ever come across the a fake security warning, then the first step you need to do is to avoid clicking on any of the options, even “Cancel” or “No”, given in the warning. You never know, what will actually happen with that “Cancel” or “No”. You do not know whether your “No” will be interpreted as a “Yes”.
And, in case you are really affected with a fake security software, then we recommend you to use a good quality antivirus scanner.
