malware

Rogue AV market was mostly dead through August and September. Although this might be caused by Chronopay raid, the timing of the raids did not match with the decline. Additionally, we have seen significant shift to different kind of malware: google redirects, new kinds of rootkits, Bitcoin mining software and Read more…

A goal of typical fake antivirus program is convincing you into giving away your credit card details. This can be done in several ways: 1. Simulating PC problems: showing porn, slowing it down, blocking other programs. This forces users into searching for solution to make PC usable. Quite often fake 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…

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…