lawman - 10:41 am on Jun 23, 2011 (gmt 0)

[bbc.co.uk...]

About one million people are thought to have installed the fake security software, also known as scareware, and handed over up to $129 for their copy. Anyone who did not pay but had downloaded the code was bombarded with pop-ups warning them about the supposed security issues.

I had to clean this off my wife's computer a few months ago.