Fake antivirus software harming legitimate products.

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Rogue or bogus programs are getting smarter.
The increase in fake antivirus software on the web could see signatured-based detection software become less effective, says the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG).

Rogue or bogus programs passing themselves off as real antivirus software have been one of the malware themes of 2009, but the APWG's numbers for the first half of the year show that the organisation's members detected 485,000 samples, more than five times the total for the whole of 2008.
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    LAPTOP. HP Pavilion dv7-1005TX .
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    Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT & 512MB DDR2 dedicated graphics mem.
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