By Giedrius Majauskas on October 3, 2011
Rogue AV market was mostly dead through August and September. Although this might be caused by Chronopay raid, the timing of the raids did not match with the decline. Additionally, we have seen significant shift to different kind of malware: google redirects, new kinds of rootkits, Bitcoin mining software and other kinds of parasites that [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on August 27, 2011
Several botnets were shut down and the CEO of rogue parmacy and fake antivirus credit card processor was arrested recently. This resulted in the significant drop of malicious software activity in August. Many took time to celebrate and rightfully so. However, I do not think this is the end of Fake AVs or malware in general. [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on February 4, 2011
A goal of typical fake antivirus program is convincing you into giving away your credit card details. This can be done in several ways: 1. Simulating PC problems: showing porn, slowing it down, blocking other programs. This forces users into searching for solution to make PC usable. Quite often fake antiviruses try leaving user no [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged avg, malware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on January 7, 2011
Last autumn was lead by ThinkPoint (or fake Microsoft essentials alerts) family of malware. Together with Security Tool Virus it was one of the biggest and the most promoted parasites. Most of other parasite families were divided in smallish, slower attacks that haven’t hit that huge amount of PCs. However, in late November ThinkPoints family [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged palladium pro, thinkpoint |
By Giedrius Majauskas on November 14, 2010
A new fake system maintenance utility is infecting more and more PCs this weekend: Ultra Defragger. This malware is clone of HDD Defragmenter/System Defragmenter/etc and has little differences except in the name. It shows same outrageous claims about hardware malfunctions and offers software-based “cure” for 80 USD. Everything it shows is a lie. For example [...]
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By Giedrius Majauskas on October 28, 2010
The popularity of rogue anti-virus programs, such as Security Tool, or the fake Microsoft Security Essentials clones like Think Point, speaks to the fact that many people are completely oblivious as to how these parasites are to be dealt with. I will therefore try to dispel some misconceptions about these parasites. First of all, many [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged malware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 25, 2010
Faked MSE popups have confused lots of people since their launch on August. Most of people have heard about Microsoft Security Essentials, and they did not expect that it could be a sign of malware infection. It was clever step to give users a choice of five rogues. However, for some reason this changed. Meet [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged thinkpoint |
By Giedrius Majauskas on October 19, 2010
Google redirect virus is a group of trojans and rootkits that redirect user searches to undesired websites. Such behavior can be noticed during rogue antivirus attacks as well, when search is hijacked and no legitimate malware remover companies are displayed or accessed in results. Thus Google redirects are quite dangerous. These redirects might affect other [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged Google redirects |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 30, 2010
Be extra careful with opening emails from Linkedin and other popular online services! There are lots of scams floating around that try impersonate these websites. They might want to infect your PC or they might want to get your personal information or credit card details. I have received an email from Linkedin today. It looked [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged malware, scam |
By Giedrius Majauskas on September 29, 2010
I became active on the MyWOT community (again), and this post is inspired by one forum thread there, where financial consultant asks for re-rating of his website. Now the problem with financial advice websites is following: they might result in large losses or gains for a single person. The more person invests, the more person [...]
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