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Regarding fake antivirus software : The idea itself is not that innovative. Fake medicines have been part fo the crooks's easy-money-toolbox for ages. This just
by nickolai 15y ago
Regarding fake antivirus software : The idea itself is not that innovative. Fake medicines have been part fo the crooks's easy-money-toolbox for ages. This just applies the "you look tired and sick. buy our snake oil to cure your ills" approach to computer users.
The tendency to pay up for dubious remedies of uncertain value is nothing new. Some ways of proposing expensive fake solutions to nonexistant problems are even legal.
- pygy_ 15y ago> Some ways of proposing expensive fake solutions to nonexistant problems are even legal. Could you give some examples?
- rl41 15y agoHomeopathy?
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- hvs 15y agoMost "herbal medicines".
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- kenjackson 15y agoIn this case and homeopathy, the solution is fake, but the problem is usually real.
- jordan0day 15y agoMonster-brand HDMI cables? Maybe this doesn't qualify because you "need" a cable -- it's just that the functional difference between the $10 cable and the $150 monster cable is essentially nil.
- mattmanser 15y agoThat's not entirely true, how many crooks went round poisoning the water before starting to sell the tonics?
- ryanklee 15y agoYes, how many? Pretty fair question to answer before making the claim that it's "not entirely true" -- how true or not true depends on the number.