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rogue antispyware

Antispyware Soft Removal and Analysis

by Shanmuga

Antispyware Soft is similar in interface and behavior to Antivirus Soft, Antivirus Live and Antivirus soft scareware. This malicious, rogue security software aggressively displays fraudulent system security alerts about non-existent network infiltration attempts and malware. The anti spyware soft rogue when installed: Installs the Fake Windows Security Center where all the links lead to its

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Digital Protection Analysis and Removal

by Shanmuga

Digital Protection is one of the recent entrants to the never-ending line of rogue security software. Once installed this scareware produces a variety of system alerts that are designed to scare the gullible users to buy its subscription. It initiates a fake system scan at every system start and purportedly finds many non-existent malware infections.

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Attack of the Rogues: Fake Windows Action Center

by Shanmuga

Microsoft debuted Windows Security Center (WSC) with Windows XP SP2 that helps in checking the status of software Firewall, Antivirus software and Windows Automatic Updates. If any of the three is switched off or found outdated, the Windows Security Center sends the user an alert via a pop-up notification balloon. With Windows Vista, Microsoft added

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Massive Profits Fueling Rogue Antivirus Market

by Shanmuga

"One service that exemplifies a very easy way these bad guys can make this kind of money is TrafficConverter.biz, one of the leading "affiliate programs" that pays people to distribute relatively worthless security software. Affiliates are given a range of links and Javascript snippets they can use to embed the software in hacked and malicious

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Spyware Guard 2008 Analysis and Removal

by Shanmuga

Spyware Guard 2008 is a new entrant to the family of rogue security software. It is not to be confused with SpywareGuard a fine freeware from Javacool software. A rogue security software belongs to a family of software products that call themselves as antivirus, antispyware or registry cleaners and often use deceptive or high pressure

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Fake XP SecurityCenter Analysis and Removal

by Shanmuga

XP SecurityCenter is rogue antimalware application installed through dubious means like a link in a spam mail or through a link in a hacked website. It’s look-alike of the legitimate Windows Security Center and it does what other rogue antimalware apps do that is to scare the unfortunate victim by throwing various pop-up messages about

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Malware Alert: Antivir64 Rogue Antispyware

by Shanmuga

Antivir64, a new rogue antispyware is on the prowl, it seems to be installing from scanner.antivir64.com with an affiliate id 1050 (scanner.antivir64.com/?aff=xxxx). The victims are redirected -probably through .htaccess file hack- from certain pages of legitimate but hacked websites. A quick google search shows first reports of blog sites getting hacked to redirect visitors to

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