I got a message on my screen saying that I had harmful viruses on my computer and that it needed to be dealt with now. Whilst it "showed" what the bugs were, the format seemed legit, so I went for the offer, it didn't seem unreasonable (but I guess that is where they hit you!). I installed it and whatnot, performed bugcheck and bugclearance. A few days later, two days or something, maybe less, I can't remember, the installed "security software" had gone, I think my dad got rid of it (thank goodness) as I have done a proper search for it on my system and it isn't there thankfully (this is a good thing, I don't think it is hiding!)... I recently clicked on two of the links in the email I was sent:
SPHERESALE.com (they said the payment will appear on my bank card statement under this name, however the name ACTUALLY on my statement is SOFTWAREHASH.com
Http://mac-defence.com (apparently a "Customer Support link"!)
None of these sites are actually up and working, they probably worked for a few hours, then brought the websites down.
Anyway, this is not a security software product, I have a suspicion that this "product" is actually malware/spyware, however you want to call it. So before anyone thinks of buying it and falling into the trap... DON'T! I usually do a google on these kinds of things, but because it seemed to be legitimate, they caught me off guard and got stung for $79.99. Would quite like my money returned, but I doubt I'll ever see it again!
Be warned!
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