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Antivirus Soft Analysis and Removal

Shanmuga — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:11:54 +0000

Antivirus Soft belongs to the family of Antivirus Live. Once installed it completely takes over the system, aggressively displays a variety of fradulent alerts about non-existent malware and infiltration attempts. This scareware installs the Fake Windows Security Center where all the links lead to the payment page for Antivirus Soft. Hijacks Internet Explorer and automatically opens a specific set of porn websites every few minutes. Internet Explorer is allowed to visit only the sites relate to this rogue security software. This is achieved by modifying the proxy settings of the Internet Explorer.

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Internet Security 2010 Analysis and Removal

Shanmuga — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 13:04:20 +0000

Once installed in the system, Internet Security 2010 produces a variety of fraudulent messages about non-existent malware. The scare messages are designed to scam the user to purchase a subscription. These scare messages are very frequent and insistent making the computer unusable. It blocked the execution of internet browsers internet explorer, firefox and google chrome installed in the test system. This scareware executes at system start and copies itself in the Windows directory presumably to stay undetected by users.

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Malware Defense Analysis and Removal

Shanmuga — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:58:32 +0000

Malware Defense extensively uses the Windows logo, icons and other design elements in its interface. This rogue software installs the notorious ‘fake windows security center‘ (wscsvc32.exe). The Virus Protection part of the fake windows security center urges the victim to activate Malware Defense license. ‘Fake security center alerts‘ about Windows Firewall detecting unauthorized activity are displayed every few minutes. The scare messages about non-existent malware come in many shapes and colors including Windows UAC like darkening of the screen and very frequent, making the computer unusable.

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PC Live Guard Analysis and Removal

Shanmuga — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:25:52 +0000

Similar in interface and actions to Windows Protection Suite and Additional Guard scareware, the PC Live Guard rogue security software pretends to be an all-in-one security and optimization suite. This scareware uses fraudulent scans and reports finding non-existent malware infections. The pop-ups, system alert messages including Windows UAC like darkening of the screen are very frequent and designed to scare the user to part with his money to remove the fake infections. PC Live Guard adds a registry key to auto start on system startup.

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AntiMalware Analysis and Removal

Shanmuga — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:16:41 +0000

AntiMalware is a rogue antimalware software with a professional looking interface. It uses a variety of scare messages including Windows UAC like darkening of the screen to persuade the unfortunate user to purchase a subscription. This scareware uses fraudulent Windows safety center ’shield’ icon in its interface and as its task bar icon.

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Cleaning Malware and Safe Mode

Shanmuga — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:38:02 +0000

Safe mode is a Windows troubleshooting option that starts your PC with only the basic files and device drivers necessary to run Windows. Many malware processes are persistent, auto start with Windows and block other legitimate programs from executing. In such situations booting into Windows safe mode is likely to disable the offending processes and provide you with a chance to proceed with malware cleaning.

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Privacy Center Analysis and Removal

Shanmuga — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:56:39 +0000

Privacy Center is the name of a rogue security software that advertises itself as a “Simple one-click solution to protect your PC“. It’s a fraud program that finds non-existent files as security and privacy threats to the user’s computer.

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Microsoft Security Essentials – Real-time protection, Alert levels and Actions

Shanmuga — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:36:13 +0000

This is Part Three of our series on Microsoft Security Essentials, earlier parts dealt with How to download, Install and Update MSE in Part one and How to Set-up Microsoft Security Essentials in Part two. This final part explains the real-time protection, various levels of alert and the actions recommended by Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) when it detects a threat to your PC.

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The botnet ecosystem

Shanmuga — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:30:01 +0000

"Botnets are networks of computers infected by malicious programs called bots.Bots allow cybercriminals to take control of a compromised machine and use its resources for their own goals – distributing spam, launching DDoS attacks, scams etc. Since the advent of botnets, the number of cybercrimes has increased enormously. However, botnets are not just a tool for cybercriminals; they are at the core of cybercriminal activity – the center that links and unites the various parts of the cybercriminal world.
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Rogue antivirus lurks behind Google Doodle searches

Shanmuga — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:25:03 +0000

"It’s the latest example of just how good scammers have become at manipulating Google search results. For months now, they’ve followed Google’s Trending Topics section and then used search engine optimization techniques to push hacked Web pages up to the top of Google’s search results, security experts say. They do this by flooding hacked pages with keywords that are then recorded by Google’s search engine.
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