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Windows 7: Beware the Bad Piggies: Fake games hit 82k Chrome users with adware

09 Oct 2012   #1

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Beware the Bad Piggies: Fake games hit 82k Chrome users with adware

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Malware authors are expert at spotting opportunities and market conditions that will aid them in distributing their wares. We saw that again last week, when security firms began warning that a supposedly "free" versions of the Angry Birds spin-off "Bad Piggies" for Google's Chrome browser are, in fact, fakes that harvest data and install adware.
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