Anna Giesman bought a US$10 webcam at Office Depot over the Thanksgiving weekend. A CD that came with the camera apparently infected her PC with fake antivirus software. Office Depot says only a small number of customers were affected. The webcam was billed as a “door crasher” promotion at some Office Depot locations. Google’s search engine flagged the site as potentially harmful, linking the site to Trojan horse and back-door malware infections over the past three months. An antivirus expert says rogue antivirus is the number-one thing we see every day.”]
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