Rogue AV Tactics Continue to Threaten

[YoKenny]

Rogue AV Tactics Continue to Threaten

by Macky Cruz (Technical Communications)

 

October has just begun and Trend Micro threat researchers keep seeing more and more ? slightly different, but yet increasingly more annoying ? variations to the set of rogue AV infection signals we have been documenting on this blog.

http://blog.trendmicro.com/rogue-av-tactic...nue-to-threaten

 

Malware Close Encounters - Close Pop-ups using Task Manager to safely exit

 

The AntiVirus 2009 attacks are particularly troublesome as they can download and install silently on a PC by just visiting a website. However, the payload still requires a mouse click when the Antivirus pop-up suddenly appears stating the user has an infection. These are very advanced malware attacks. They are difficult to prevent, detect, and clean. Avoidance is your best defense.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archi...afely-exit.aspx

[Corona]

http://blog.trendmicro.com/rogue-av-tactic...nue-to-threaten

 

http://msmvps.com/blogs/harrywaldron/archi...afely-exit.aspx

eh pr0n.

[Andavari]

eh pr0n.

That's just it, you don't even have to visit a "pr0n" site to get the "offer" for a rogue AV. Just using a search engine can result in multiple searches on a page that only result into rogue b.s. like "your system is infected."

 

I agree with using CTRL+ALT+DEL to get out of those Windows, hence you don't know what their "close" button will do.