1. A computer-implemented method for detecting scareware comprising: accessing one or more webpages to be evaluated, at least one of which being a landing page effective to automatically access one or more redirection pages; extracting one or more features from one or more landing page and one or more redirection pages; and comparing, using a classifier, the features extracted with features of known scareware and non-scareware pages effective to determine a likelihood that one or more landing page and redirection page is a scareware page.