Tapsnake
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tapsnake-166-4542836
title:
Tapsnake
text:
Tapsnake is a scareware scam involving coercion to buy protection from a non-existent computer virus that has been distributed in various ways. It was offered as a game, malware/spyware included transmitting sundry information, particularly GPS location information to unauthorized third parties. The name Tapsnake comes from the computer game Snaker, which has been revised such that the 'snake' responds to touchscreen taps by the user. The game is the front end of a trojan, spyware. An unsuspecti
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Scareware
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapsnake
date created:
2015-03-07T20:05:47Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T17:30:06Z
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