Symantec has a false increase in disk utilities warned. Similar so-called scareware alleged errors related applications on a PC, eliminating the activation fee is required for that. The tools are hard scanners and programs to defragment. Layout and user interface are similar to legitimate applications in order to trick users. "What began as a trickle, has become a constant current," wrote Hon Lau, a security researcher at Symantec, in a journal . Almost daily published new versions of wrong disk utilities under names like Ultra defragger, Smart Defragmenter, HDD defragmenter, System Defragmenter, Disk Defragmenter, Check Disk or Scan Disk.

The result, according to Symantec false applications directly from a scan after installation, during which they allegedly looking for trouble. “After the scan, a report published with numerous errors and warnings. The user should run then defragmentation, so that the computer is put into an alleged 'safe mode'," said Hon Lau on. The wrong software fix although some apparent problems, but it remained a serious error that could be removed only after a fee-based activation. Google had in April, a study on Scareware published. In the analysis of 240 million Web search provider was on the 15 percent of all malicious domains fake anti-virus solutions. You are responsible for half of the malware that spreads via advertising will.