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Recently it was discovered that a link to a Hillary Clinton video leads to the Trojan.Srizbi infection. With all of the hype and publicity of the upcoming election, hackers have joined the political world by masking Trojans and malicious files as a video link. The discovered link to download Trojan.Srizbi is usually sent as a spam message to multiple computer users. The subject of the spam message reads “Hillary Clinton Full Video !!!” The link provided in the spam message actually redirects users to download a file named “mpg.exe” which contains the Trojan.Srizbi infection.
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Posted February 15th, 2008 in the Category(ies) Internet Security | No Response »
WinReanimator is a malicious rogue anti-spyware program that comes from the Vundo Trojan infection. WinReanimator is a clone of UltimateFixer which is an older rogue anti-spyware program that caused a fair share of issues with computers on the internet. WinReanimator alerts users with fake messages stating the following:
“Windows has detected spyware infection!
It is recommended to use special antispyware tools to prevent data loss.
Windows will now download and install the most up-to-date antispyware for you
Click here to protect your computer from spyware!”
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Posted February 14th, 2008 & Last Updated Mar 28, 2008
in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal, WinReanimator | No Response »
VirusHeat is the latest rogue anti-spyware application that may be brought to your computer by a Zlob Trojan, exploiting browser security weaknesses. Zlob Trojans are notorious for masquerading as video and audio codecs, and once you install one of those on your system, it will download and install certain malware applications, in this case – VirusHeat. The next step will be the installation of another Trojan that will display fake notifications of virus threats.
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Posted February 13th, 2008 in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal | 2 Responses »
VirusProtect is a rogue anti-spyware program that displays fake security notifications in order to trick you into purchasing their full version. VirusProtect may change your desktop settings to issue fake warning messages, hijack the web browser and redirect you to unwanted web sites. VirusProtect installs malicious files and automatically downloads itself onto your computer, which makes VirusProtect difficult to remove.
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Posted November 13th, 2007 & Last Updated Nov 21, 2007
in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal | 1 Response »
IEDefender may look like a legitimate anti-spyware, but it’s created only to scare you into purchasing IEDefender. IEDefender may scare you into buying it by overwhelming you with fake alerts or pop-ups. IEDefender can’t prevent your computer from being infected with spyware — IEDefender may actually damage your system.
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Posted October 31st, 2007 & Last Updated Sep 17, 2008
in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal | 2 Responses »
VirusRay is a rogue anti-spyware program that displays fake security notifications in order to trick you into purchasing their full version. VirusRay may change your desktop settings to issue fake warning messages, hijack the web browser and redirect you to unwanted web sites. VirusRay installs malicious files and automatically downloads itself onto your computer, which makes VirusRay difficult to remove.
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Posted October 22nd, 2007 & Last Updated Nov 21, 2007
in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal | No Response »
AntiVirGear is a rogue anti-spyware program that displays fake security notifications in order to trick you into purchasing their full version. AntiVirGear may change your desktop settings to issue fake warning messages, hijack the web browser and redirect you to unwanted web sites. AntiVirGear installs malicious files and automatically downloads itself onto your computer, which makes AntiVirGear difficult to remove.
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Posted September 13th, 2007 & Last Updated Nov 21, 2007
in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal | 5 Responses »
Skype has warned its users to be wary of opening virus-infected link after thousands of Skype users were affected worldwide this week.
The virus is called W32/Ramex.A and it uses Skype’s public Application Program Interface (API) to access the PC.
W32/Ramex.A spreads via chat messages that may be received either from the user’s contact list or from the unknown Skype users. The message includes an Internet link which leads to a virus file. When a Skype user opens the link, the Windows Run/Save box will show up and will ask for permission to save or run a .scr file. This file is a nasty virus file and should not be installed in any way. Once it is executed, W32/Ramex.A will overrun Explorer setting as well as many other system files.
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Posted September 10th, 2007 & Last Updated Sep 17, 2007
in the Category(ies) Internet Security | No Response »
WinAntivirus Pro 2007 is a rogue anti-spyware program that pops up fake security notifications in order to trick you into purchasing their full version. WinAntivirus Pro 2007 may change your desktop settings to issue fake warning messages, hijack the web browser and redirect you to unwanted web sites. WinAntivirus Pro 2007 secretly installs and automatically downloads itself onto your computer, therefore, WinAntivirus Pro 2007 may be difficult to remove manually.
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Posted August 7th, 2007 & Last Updated Nov 21, 2007
in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal | 3 Responses »
SpyShredder displays fake warnings that your machine is infected with spyware. If you click SpyShredder’s icon or fake alert, you’ll be taken to a site to buy SpyShredder, though SpyShredder program may actually damage your computer and not protect you against spyware. Usually SpyShredder secretly downloads and installs itself onto your computer.
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Posted August 7th, 2007 & Last Updated Nov 21, 2007
in the Category(ies) Spyware Removal | 3 Responses »
