By Giedrius Majauskas on April 22, 2009
Privacy center is quite annoying piece of rogue anti-spyware programs because it uses multiple trojans for spreading around. The problem is, most of single removers fail to remove all versions of these Trojans now, as it is stated in comments of these Privacy Center removal tips. Thus an infection might be a big problem. [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged privacy center, spyware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on December 24, 2008
Today I got notified about some Intelinet Smart Security software (intelinet-global.com). A friend of mine could not decide if its rogue or not at first. Well, some diging around and we found who owns it, and it was not even hard : they used netcom3.com domain email while registering the new one. Remember Netcom3 guys [...]
Posted in Reviews, Security | Tagged Intelinet, spyware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on April 28, 2008
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 proofs [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged IE Antivirus, spyware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on April 16, 2008
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. [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged spyware, VirusIsolator |
By Giedrius Majauskas on April 15, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged removers, spyware |
By Giedrius Majauskas on March 17, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged pandora software, spymaxx, spyware |
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 [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged rogue, spyware, spywaresweeperpro |
By Giedrius Majauskas on February 12, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Security | Tagged spyware, virusheat |
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