Scareware

Quality:

Scareware - form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted products. Article "Scareware" in Finnish Wikipedia has 0.3 points for quality (as of August 1, 2024).

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Scareware", its content was written by 7 registered users of Finnish Wikipedia and edited by 286 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 88 times in Finnish Wikipedia and cited 904 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (Finnish): #11421 in May 2011
  • Global: #36669 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (Finnish): #79587 in August 2011
  • Global: #74611 in April 2009

There are 18 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from August 1, 2024 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Scareware
43.9236
2Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
30.9957
3Arabic (ar)
برمجية تخويف
28.6653
4Indonesian (id)
Perangkat penyeram
23.5215
5German (de)
Scareware
23.3998
6Croatian (hr)
Scareware
23.3806
7Spanish (es)
Scareware
20.2687
8Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
19.7918
9Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
12.6416
10Italian (it)
Scareware
12.3125
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Scareware" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scareware
1 018 877
2German (de)
Scareware
217 165
3Spanish (es)
Scareware
76 228
4Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
51 190
5Italian (it)
Scareware
29 039
6French (fr)
Scareware
23 385
7Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
19 628
8Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
9 814
9Swedish (sv)
Scareware
8 724
10Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
6 946
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in July 2024

The most popular language versions of the article "Scareware" in July 2024
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scareware
1 714
2Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
258
3German (de)
Scareware
233
4Italian (it)
Scareware
86
5French (fr)
Scareware
81
6Spanish (es)
Scareware
70
7Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
63
8Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
59
9Arabic (ar)
برمجية تخويف
48
10Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
45
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Scareware" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Scareware
130
2German (de)
Scareware
39
3Italian (it)
Scareware
20
4Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
12
5French (fr)
Scareware
12
6Spanish (es)
Scareware
11
7Swedish (sv)
Scareware
9
8Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
8
9Serbian (sr)
Скервер
8
10Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in July 2024

Language versions of the article "Scareware" with the highest AI in July 2024
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Scareware
1
2Italian (it)
Scareware
1
3Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
1
4Slovenian (sl)
Strašilna programska oprema
1
5Arabic (ar)
برمجية تخويف
0
6German (de)
Scareware
0
7Spanish (es)
Scareware
0
8Estonian (et)
Paanikatarkvara
0
9Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
0
10Finnish (fi)
Scareware
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Scareware" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Scareware
248
2Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
118
3Arabic (ar)
برمجية تخويف
106
4Finnish (fi)
Scareware
88
5Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
85
6Korean (ko)
스케어웨어
61
7Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
60
8Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
54
9French (fr)
Scareware
29
10Swedish (sv)
Scareware
15
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Global:
Popularity in July 2024:
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Popularity in all years:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
برمجية تخويف
deGerman
Scareware
enEnglish
Scareware
esSpanish
Scareware
etEstonian
Paanikatarkvara
faPersian
ترس‌افزار
fiFinnish
Scareware
frFrench
Scareware
hrCroatian
Scareware
idIndonesian
Perangkat penyeram
itItalian
Scareware
jaJapanese
スケアウェア
koKorean
스케어웨어
ptPortuguese
Scareware
slSlovenian
Strašilna programska oprema
srSerbian
Скервер
svSwedish
Scareware
zhChinese
恐嚇軟體

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank Finnish:
#79587
08.2011
Global:
#74611
04.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank Finnish:
#11421
05.2011
Global:
#36669
05.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Scareware from Wikipedia articles about Malware, Rogue security software, Ransomware, Conficker and Spyware. Whereas reading the article about Scareware people most often go to Wikipedia articles on NightMare, Rogue security software, SpySheriff, Virus: The Game and Ransomware.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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