As a follow-up to my post Internet Safety and Privacy Concerns…are you protected? I found a post on Google’s Security blog talking about Fake Antivirus programs, or FakeAV, which talks about how real of a threat this is, and how we seem to be doing better at handling it.
The post can be found at http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2010/04/rise-of-fake-anti-virus.html.