Anonymous
Omaha,#2Consumer Comment
Mon, June 23, 2008
Software like this is called "Extortion ware". I personally had an extortion ware infection known as "Fotomoto" on one of my computers before. These Adware scam programs infect your computer, add fake virus and/or Adware infections (to scare you) then offer fake removal software for a price. The scammer software vendor then DEMANDS that you purchase the fake "infection removal" program to remove the alleged infections on your computer. The ripoff is that this is all of course fake, your computer is still infected, and you are out of money. These programs are very hard to remove. I had to wipe my hard drive to remove an infection like this. BTW: I did not fall for for that scam, but of course damage was caused in lost data from the recovery...