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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Reimage is a automated registry and PC repair tool. It is similar to Registry cleaners, though it claims that it works differently, by performing deeper analysis of PC health and having a configuration and file repository, which allows reversing of damage done to PC (aka deleted files/drivers/etc). The controversy with Read more…
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. Read more…
Today I got chance to download Skype for Android. Although it was available for Verizon users in USA, most of us could not enjoy it. We had to resort to Fring or Nimbuzz. Although both of these are good chat programs, they worked not so well with Skype. The interface Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
A new advertisements caught my eye : Moboo.me IQ tests. These advertisements look like this: What is interesting, for 90% or more of people this answer has nothing to do with IQ, but with normal color vision. If you see colors normally, you will not have problems recognizing 74. What Read more…