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Microsoft Discovers Increase in Trojan Downloaders

Many websites that secretly download malicious software onto computers on the internet are increasing at an alarming rate. About 18 percent of security breaches online are from malicious software and hackers. Attacks made by malicious software and hackers have increased 300 percent in the number and proportion of Trojan downloaders according to a report by Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center.

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Malware Bell Falsely Classifies PCTools as Malware

A discovery that we made when we were infected with the MalwareBell or Malware Bell rogue anti-spyware program was that Malware Bell classified PCTools as malware. As shown in the image below, Malware Bell classified PCTools as being a variant of the Trojan.Win32.SystemCrash infection. Not only did Malware Bell insinuate that it was an actual Trojan infection but it has the word “adware” in parenthesis next to the Trojan name.

Malware Bell Adware Result

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MonaRonaDona Is Not A Pretty Picture

MonaRonaDona sounds like some type of painting such as the Mona Lisa but is far from being a masterpiece when you computer has downloaded MonaRonaDona. MonaRonaDona has recently stirred up an uproar on the internet during the past couple of weeks after it was discovered as TROJ_MONAGRAY.A, which is a trojan infection.

MonaRonaDona is one of the latest dirty parasites to hit the internet causing havoc on user’s computers. Certain unconfirmed reports online have stated that MonaRonaDona may come from a possible malicious program called Registry Clean Fix. MonaRonaDona may also be a creation from another program called Unigray which is supposed to be a virus detection and removal tool. It was discovered that Unigray is not a legitimate virus tool but part of a Trojan infection. Both of the mentioned programs are all part of painting the full MonaRonaDona picture which is a ploy to infect your computer.

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