Scareware

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 French Wikipedia has 1.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026).

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

Since the creation of article “Scareware”, its content was written by 13 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 321 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 28 times in French Wikipedia and cited 1062 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #67694 in September 2010
• Global: #36683 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #37711 in November 2025
• Global: #75039 in April 2009

There are 19 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 July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

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

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Scareware		44.1879
2	Italian (it) Scareware		33.7239
3	Armenian (hy) Scareware		33.0693
4	Spanish (es) Scareware		32.845
5	Persian (fa) ترس‌افزار		29.018
6	Arabic (ar) برمجية تخويف		28.3662
7	Chinese (zh) 恐嚇軟體		24.1398
8	Croatian (hr) Scareware		23.3628
9	Indonesian (id) Perangkat penyeram		23.282
10	German (de) Scareware		22.6186

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Scareware" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scareware		1 074 232
2	German (de) Scareware		223 581
3	Spanish (es) Scareware		83 338
4	Japanese (ja) スケアウェア		55 437
5	Italian (it) Scareware		37 260
6	French (fr) Scareware		30 765
7	Portuguese (pt) Scareware		25 464
8	Persian (fa) ترس‌افزار		11 174
9	Swedish (sv) Scareware		9 058
10	Chinese (zh) 恐嚇軟體		8 527

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Scareware" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Scareware		2 292
2	German (de) Scareware		171
3	Japanese (ja) スケアウェア		122
4	Spanish (es) Scareware		112
5	Italian (it) Scareware		75
6	French (fr) Scareware		72
7	Chinese (zh) 恐嚇軟體		60
8	Serbian (sr) Скервер		37
9	Persian (fa) ترس‌افزار		32
10	Portuguese (pt) Scareware		29

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Scareware" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Scareware		143
2	German (de) Scareware		40
3	Italian (it) Scareware		24
4	Persian (fa) ترس‌افزار		14
5	Spanish (es) Scareware		13
6	French (fr) Scareware		13
7	Chinese (zh) 恐嚇軟體		11
8	Japanese (ja) スケアウェア		10
9	Portuguese (pt) Scareware		10
10	Swedish (sv) Scareware		9

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Scareware" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Scareware		2
2	Arabic (ar) برمجية تخويف		1
3	Armenian (hy) Scareware		1
4	German (de) Scareware		0
5	English (en) Scareware		0
6	Estonian (et) Paanikatarkvara		0
7	Persian (fa) ترس‌افزار		0
8	Finnish (fi) Scareware		0
9	French (fr) Scareware		0
10	Croatian (hr) Scareware		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Scareware" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Scareware		235
2	Japanese (ja) スケアウェア		196
3	Persian (fa) ترس‌افزار		121
4	Arabic (ar) برمجية تخويف		113
5	Chinese (zh) 恐嚇軟體		92
6	Finnish (fi) Scareware		88
7	Korean (ko) 스케어웨어		66
8	Portuguese (pt) Scareware		58
9	French (fr) Scareware		28
10	Swedish (sv) Scareware		15

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic برمجية تخويف
de	German Scareware
en	English Scareware
es	Spanish Scareware
et	Estonian Paanikatarkvara
fa	Persian ترس‌افزار
fi	Finnish Scareware
fr	French Scareware
hr	Croatian Scareware
hy	Armenian Scareware
id	Indonesian Perangkat penyeram
it	Italian Scareware
ja	Japanese スケアウェア
ko	Korean 스케어웨어
pt	Portuguese Scareware
sl	Slovenian Strašilna programska oprema
sr	Serbian Скервер
sv	Swedish Scareware
zh	Chinese 恐嚇軟體

Best Rank

French: #37711 11.2025

Global: #75039 04.2009

Best Rank

French: #67694 09.2010

Global: #36683 05.2011

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