Lists of "Rogue Security Software"?

[ewemoa]

Came across this:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rogue_security_software

Wikipedia currently has the following definition for "Rogue Security Software":

a rogue (a form of Internet fraud using computer malware) that deceives or misleads users into paying money for fake or simulated removal of malware (so is a form of ransomware) — or it claims to get rid of, but instead introduces malware to the computer.

Not sure how up-to-date the list is.

Found some other lists that seemed clearly out-of-date by a year or more.


Apart from asking around, I guess if one is considering something for installation and it's small enough jotti, virustotal, and the like are likely to give useful feedback about the candidate in question.

[Curt]

Just click "edit" and do it ;-)

Example: I've just removed Avast!^w from the list.