Giedrius Majauskas blog

IE Antivirus - just another scam looking for your money

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 Posted by Giedrius | Security | no comments

VirusIsolator - how easy is to clone another rogue

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 Posted by Giedrius | Security | one comment

XPAntivirus or how to pretend being legitimate

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 Posted by Giedrius | Security | no comments

SpyMaxx - a new scam by pandora software

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 Posted by Giedrius | Security | 4 comments

Beware of Spyware Sweeper Pro

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 Posted by Giedrius | Security | one comment

VirusHeat - Rogue threat for your pc

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 Posted by Giedrius | Security | no comments