Recently, media exposure, a 41-year-old South Korean woman was alleged to have nearly 400 million Internet users by spreading false prosecution of anti-virus software, Sophos warned computer users: To guard against false security warnings.
Lee Shin-ja, the former CEO of Media Port, is accused since 2005, through the publication of false security warning and guide Internet users to purchase Media Port Corporation 3850 won per month (2.05 pounds) of anti-virus software "Doctor Virus",profit more than 9.2 billion won (nearly 4.9 million pounds).
Seoul Central District inspection agency statement, Lee hired two computer programmers for the Society to participate in the event from being prosecuted.
"More and more people are concerned about the security of personal computers, which makes some of the speculators, it is easy to convince users that a false warning message" Sophos senior technology consultant Graham Cluley continued: "In this case, about 3.96 million InternetUsers have tried to use the free security software, about 126 million people adhere to the 'security software' pay. see this group of figures, we will not investigate whether the authorities have severely threatened many people were surprised the software is to defraud a "
Sophos experts note that hundreds of different security programs are competitive Korean market, and many other parts of the software is not understood by the world.
"And many other countries, South Korea's computer users often use a variety of antivirus software at the same time, this may be because they made the security software can not be achieved 'On-access scanner (on-demand scanning)' function."Cluley explained that "such an environment to download and test increased their search from the Internet to the possibility of the software, but unfortunately, it seems that there are many computer crimes are so prepared to blind users by threatening to buy security products, in an effort to increaseits market share.
One unnamed company spokesman said Doctor Virus software will no longer display their false warning.
Sophos recommends that: the company should adopt some of the more well-known, and can provide automatic updates, set against viruses, Trojans, hackers and spam in one of the security software to protect their computers, gateways and servers.