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XP Protection Center – a new scam on the net

XP Protection Center is a new rogue anti-spyware program – a fake spyware remover, which tries to trick the user into purchasing it’s “licensed version” by intimidating him. This parasite typically enters the system in two ways: by using the Zlob trojan, or by manual download and installation from it’s website. XP Protection Center will [...]

My Personal experience with anti-spywares

Last weekend I had to do virus/spyware removal on my parent computers. They relied on EZ firewall/antivirus which, in my personal opinion, is not so good tool (polite way to say it is crap). But oh well. The infection – some downloaders, probably gotten from infected flash, a backdoor, adware which caused explorer to crash [...]