More on Phony Security Software
The newest and greatest threat today to consumers is phony security software and the developers of these fakes are good. They resemble any standard antivirus or they use the Google Toolbar or the Windows Security Center ... everything is not as it seems.
The only suggestion that we have is never, ever click on a popup even with your system ... even a PCSecurityShield popup. If you think it is time to renew your software go to your Start Menu and open the product from there. Then you are controlling the product and not some random popup.
Here is an interesting and revealing article from
Yahoo.