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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 French Wikipedia has 1.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025).

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 300 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 29 times in French Wikipedia and cited 921 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (French): #67743 in September 2010
  • Global: #36651 in May 2011

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (French): #156677 in June 2011
  • Global: #74552 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 July 1, 2025 (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
43.7901
2Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
30.8303
3Arabic (ar)
برمجية تخويف
28.5794
4Croatian (hr)
Scareware
23.3644
5Indonesian (id)
Perangkat penyeram
23.3486
6German (de)
Scareware
23.093
7Spanish (es)
Scareware
19.8547
8Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
19.7028
9Italian (it)
Scareware
12.1933
10Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
12.1913
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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
1 040 985
2German (de)
Scareware
220 447
3Spanish (es)
Scareware
77 816
4Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
53 403
5Italian (it)
Scareware
31 031
6French (fr)
Scareware
24 821
7Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
20 257
8Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
10 762
9Swedish (sv)
Scareware
8 906
10Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
7 892
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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 June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Scareware" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Scareware
2 561
2German (de)
Scareware
283
3French (fr)
Scareware
147
4Italian (it)
Scareware
129
5Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
124
6Spanish (es)
Scareware
113
7Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
108
8Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
47
9Korean (ko)
스케어웨어
44
10Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
40
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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
136
2German (de)
Scareware
40
3Italian (it)
Scareware
20
4Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
14
5French (fr)
Scareware
13
6Spanish (es)
Scareware
12
7Swedish (sv)
Scareware
9
8Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
9
9Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
8
10Serbian (sr)
Скервер
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 June 2025

Language versions of the article "Scareware" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
برمجية تخويف
0
2German (de)
Scareware
0
3English (en)
Scareware
0
4Spanish (es)
Scareware
0
5Estonian (et)
Paanikatarkvara
0
6Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
0
7Finnish (fi)
Scareware
0
8French (fr)
Scareware
0
9Croatian (hr)
Scareware
0
10Indonesian (id)
Perangkat penyeram
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
247
2Persian (fa)
ترس‌افزار
121
3Arabic (ar)
برمجية تخويف
113
4Finnish (fi)
Scareware
88
5Chinese (zh)
恐嚇軟體
87
6Japanese (ja)
スケアウェア
65
7Korean (ko)
스케어웨어
62
8Portuguese (pt)
Scareware
53
9French (fr)
Scareware
29
10Swedish (sv)
Scareware
15
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Scores

Estimated value for Wikipedia:
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Registered authors 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 French:
#156677
06.2011
Global:
#74552
04.2009

AI rank trends

Best Rank French:
#67743
09.2010
Global:
#36651
05.2011

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

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

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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