Scam : Errorsafe
Tuesday, February 28th, 2006Woow… I’ve always thought i live in a small country. But now i understand that the scams have no boundries. Today, these popups showed themselves from Errorsafe in fluently Norwegian .
“This is not a virus or a trojan. It is detected as a “potentially unwanted program.” It purports to be an system repair/maintenance application, but requires paid registration before any issues found can be fixed. Many of the “invalid” items found appear suspect. For example, a cookie from the winfixer.com domain was detected, along with several shortcuts that were pointing to valid existing targets. Although some detected items may be legitimate, the fact that clearly benign items are cited as problems is questionable. The primary function of the free version appears to be to alarm the user into paying for registration, at least partially based on false or erroneous detections. ” - Quote from McAfee
External link :English describtion of the software
External link :Symantec response
“Merk : Hvis datamaskinen har feil i registerdatabasen eller filsystemet, kan det forårsake uforutsigbar eller uregelmesig adferd som kan fryse eller krasje systeme. nSlike feil kan repareres og dermed øker datamaskinens ytelse og tap av data forhindres. nnVil du installere ErrorSafe slik at du gratis kan sjekke datamaskinen din? (anbefales)”
Buzz! The Big Quiz is due to release in spring. A Norwegian newspaper (dagbladet) has this video presentation of the game.
