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Google hoodwinked into pushing Chrome OS scareware

November 23, 2009 News Comments

Tamper tantrum Rogue anti-virus scammers have tainted search results for Chromium OS – the open source version of Google’s Chrome OS – in a bid to expose surfers hunting the web operating system to a fake anti-virus scan scam instead.… Case Study: WhatsUp keeps Legoland turnstyles ringing

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