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Virus-alert-center.com

Posted: December 26, 2008

Virus-alert-center.com is a rogue and malicious website associated with the sham website Scanner-antivirus360.com that promotes the phony program Antivirus360. While on the Virus-alert-center.com site, false warning virus alerts pertaining to Netsky.q will be displayed and then you will be redirected to the rogue Scanner-antivirus360.com site that further scares you with more false warning alerts.

These false warning alerts are displayed in order to scare you into purchasing the worthless Antivirus 360 program. Do not be frightened by this shakedown scheme and do NOT purchase the phony Antivirus 360 program. Do not visit Virus-alert-center.com or Scanner-antivirus360.com. If you find yourself visiting one of them, you will probably be infected with some type of malware and you should remove the infection immediately.

File System Modifications

  • The following files were created in the system:
    # File Name
    1 Antivirus 360.lnk
    2 av360.exe

Registry Modifications

  • The following newly produced Registry Values are:
    HKEY..\..\..\..{Subkeys}HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\13376694984709702142491016734454HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ Run "13376694984709702142491016734454"
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