KVMSecure … what a hell? It looks like we completely run out of names to name a rogue spyware remover and any letters with one word related to security and viruses will do the trick. Add year 2008 to the end of the name, and you look almost reliable. Almost, as most of the people […]
May 22nd, 2008
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IE Antivirus shows that Rogue spyware remover business booms like never before. They have run out of names to label their scams and now use weird combinations of legitimate program names. Well, this about ends their legitimateness, as they are nothing more than frauds that should be removed. IE Antivirus is one of many […]
April 28th, 2008
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VirusIsolator is another rogue antispyware which was created to scare users. It is low budget project - standard rogue website with the common “90% of computers are infected” threat. Most of the users would not signup at such poor Virus Isolator website, but some of them might fall for popups, distributed with help of trojans. […]
April 16th, 2008
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Internet users are becoming slightly more careful. Slightly, as they do not believe each ad they see on website. We have seen MalwareThis and MalwareThat, VirusThis and VirusThat and so on, most of the users already know where the risk is with such products. They do not download such products from clone websites, and if […]
April 15th, 2008
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SpyMaxx is a new, desperate wave of fake spyware removal tools that try to upkeep legitimate software image. This branch of them is marketed by pandora software, and includes such scams like WinlFixer And Infestop. The websites look appearently normal, the payment is processed by their parent company… One has to wonder why there is […]
March 17th, 2008
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Spyware sweeper is a legitimate spyware remover and quite good one too. This was not unnoticed by scammers and they released a rogue skinned similarly to spyware sweeper - SpywareSweeperPro. It was released in the hopes that the users would believe that SpywareSweeperPro is an advanced version of legitimate remover. Of couse, nothing is advanced […]
March 14th, 2008
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1. Upgrade software you use. Stop using IE 5.5, 6. Get IE7 fast! FireFox or Opera are even better. Older software has more known exploits and is less than safe, as some versions are already not supported anymore. Don’t risk. That’s one of the most important steps for safe browsing.
2. Keep your windows updated. […]
March 11th, 2008
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WinReanimator is a new infection, that got epidemic status just after Valentines day this February. Together with SystemDefender, they started succesfully taking place left after Virus Heat infections, although scam is about the same. The symptoms are following: You browse websites, get to infected ones (luckily, these are mostly porn or crack websites) and start […]
February 15th, 2008
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VirusHeat is a new name of our “favourite” scam of 2007 - rogue anti-spyware apps. These applications came in hundreds of names in the past, like SpyAxe, MalwareCrush, VirusHeal and now VirusHeat. Strangely enough, they decided to change only one letter in the name and add some borrowed graphics to a new website - the […]
February 12th, 2008
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When you get a membership letter with passwords from a sites you never visited, stay cautious - its a new version of spam virus that sends out greeting cards. Only now the message looks something like this:
New Member,
Welcome To Website name>.
Membership Number: 11424856351
Temorary Login: user4443
Temorary Password: ub825
For security purposes please login and change the […]
August 21st, 2007
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