Faked anti-virus solution develops in to a plague

[YoKenny]

Faked anti-virus solution develops in to a plague

Fri, 29 August 2008

A fake anti-virus solution that reports phantasy threats is currently spreading massively and causing annoying alerts. AntiVir protects computers against the phantasy program.

 

Tettnang, 29 August 2008 ? Internet criminals are using aggressive methods to push fake anti-virus solutions on innocent victims. They gain success by targeting people with little computer knowledge or occasional users and make victims of such people.

 

A fake anti-virus solution such as ?Antivirus XP 2008" annoys the users with permanent security alerts, it changes the desktop background and it reports imaginative threats on the system. There are very few other real anti-virus solutions that recognize this infection ? because the fake anti-virus solutions create files with data trash, for instance in the Windows folder or the system folder, they consequently report as a threat. The fake anti-virus solutions force the user to purchase the fraudulent software in order to remove the fake threats.

http://www.avira.com/it/security_news/fake...s_solution.html

[Andavari]

I'm glad Avira posted a screenshot of it. It's easy to tell they're really trying to get people just from the GUI design with a Vista background and even the modified Windows Defender icon to make it look "official" when it really isn't. That's some evil crap!