Major rogue software operation taken down

[Chiefcrowe]

it was called trafficconverter

http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00001631.html

another related article:

Massive Profits Fueling Rogue Antivirus Market

 

[RebateMonger]

Wish I could buy stock in those guys. Sometimes I think they are winning the battle.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nice, glad to see this, but that's like 0.0001% of what's out there. Glad they finally got caught though. Those fake AVs were freaken annoying. IE is the standard in all corporate environments we deal with so it just "slides in" without the user knowing or even getting prompted for anything.