Evolved Malware

Maybe this has happened to you: you’re online and you get a little pop-up window saying that a virus has been detected on your computer and you need to download a patch or an application to get rid of it. The pop-up certainly looks official. So what do you do? Turns out more and more people go along with it and in so doing they open the door to their computer to something that is certainly not there to help.

Andrew Brandt of internet security company Webroot tells how the battle between computer users & malware producers is evolving.

Audio: APM's Future Tense 5/4/10, Host: John Moe.