This is very informative. I hope our anti-malwares are up to the task!
hmm, that will trap many people....
Nice link. Was quite impressed by the quality of the deception.
Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool was particularly clever.
I was taken in myself last year when I first launched myself into LaLa land by "You're computer has been infected a virus" type windows appearing all over the screen.
It frightened the life out of me, and I was in such a panic that I clicked on what I thought was a genuine AntiVirus programme:
WinAntivirusPro2006.
Kept the pic as a souvenir as it was the first and last time I was infected. Some other nasty came down with it and I had to format in the end. This was before I found this place.
Of course there's now a WinAntiVirusPro2007, so don't be fooled as I was.
Apologies for going on a bit, but I'm sure we get new folk here all the time who've never heard of these little buggers.
"Was quite impressed by the quality of the deception." Agree, that is why I thought it was worth posting the link.
My gf has been getting a believable email scam in last couple of days asking her to reset her Live Messenger login details. Thing is the email address it came from looks like a genuine MSN addy and the email is well written (none of the usual typos etc). Main thing that arose my suspicion when , thankfully, she asked my opinion was the fact she had four of these in her inbox and the link it asked her to click, though looking like an MSN link, was too long and random for my liking.
Luckily she's sensible enough to ask me about any dodgy looking emails, it was certainly convincing
It frightened the life out of me, and I was in such a panic that I clicked on what I thought was a genuine AntiVirus programme:WinAntivirusPro2006.
The only one clue inside of that screenshot that it was a rogue/bogus antivirus was the "30 million downloads" part for someone who didn't already know of it. That was what I noticed right off the bat.
Of course there's now a WinAntiVirusPro2007, so don't be fooled as I was.
Apologies for going on a bit, but I'm sure we get new folk here all the time who've never heard of these little buggers.
The below tool is specialised at removing those type of rogue apps.
RogueRemover is a utility that can remove various rogue antispyware, antivirus and hard drive cleaning utilities. Rogue applications are applications that rather than remove spyware, provide false positives, distribute malware or spyware, advertise, or provide useless uninstallers. The main point is that rogue applications are useless and eat up system resources.
RogueRemover has the ability to completely remove WinAntiSpyware/WinAntiVirus, SpyAxe, VirusBlast, VirusBursters and many more!
Simply download RogueRemover from the one of the links below, unzip the file, and run the installer. Start the program and select Scan and the program will walk you through th