According to a report from Panda Security, as much as 40% of fake antivirus programs ever created were released this year and infected over 5% of all computers in the world.This type of applications, which are collectively known as scareware or rogueware, originally appeared four years ago. However, they only became ... |
17 November 2010
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A new and aggressive rogue antivirus program, which gets installed through a fake Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) alert, forces computers to reboot and prevents the Desktop from loading.Called ThinkPoint, the program is dropped by a downloader-type application mimicking Microsoft Security Essentials.The downloade... |
30 October 2010
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a scareware alert through the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The advisory describes the aggressive tactics used in these scams and estimates that they caused losses of over $150 million to victims.Scareware, also known as rogueware, is a term used to refer to fak... |
12 December 2009
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Researchers from Panda Security warn that a notorious rogue antivirus called “Total Security 2009" has started displaying ransomware behavior. In order to convince as many users as possible to pay for a useless license, the malicious application doesn't allow any file to be executed on the system.Fake anti... |
12 October 2009
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Security researchers warn that fake antivirus programs could instruct users to disable the legit security software they have installed. This behavior has been observed with a recent rogueware variant called "Protection System," which attempts to uninstall the Malwarebytes anti-malware tool.Rogueware is a term used to... |
4 September 2009
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