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Hypocritical rogue bloggers in TechJaws

Hypocritical rogue bloggers in TechJaws

By Giedrius Majauskas on October 1, 2010

I read security blogs daily. For 2 months, I read TechJaws too, which is quite well written, but quite inexperienced in what they are doing. Some of the “best posts” are ones that bash “Rogue” bloggers and sites with poor WOT reputation. I am on the bad side of this argument, as my rogue removal [...]

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Rogue you should guard from – Spyware Guard 2008

By Giedrius Majauskas on January 3, 2009

Spyware Guard 2008 fake alerts made a lot of action in the last weeks of 2008. This rogue is especially nasty due the fact, that it tries blocking legitimate websites that distribute proper spyware removers. I have warn and warn computer users again not to believe “Windows” popups that suggest downloading and purchasing third party software [...]

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WinAntivirus2008

By Giedrius Majauskas on September 5, 2008

WinAntivirus2008 is the the new implementation of old scam trying to get into your purse. Its installer is distributed with fake video codex “required” to view movies in torrent or porn sites or other presumably usefull software. You wont get to see a movie after installing it (go to the cinema for that), but your [...]

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Beware of Spyware Sweeper Pro

By Giedrius Majauskas on March 14, 2008

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 [...]

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