Dedicated 2-viruses

What should you know about Path and Hipster

gabriele — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:01:01 +0000

Sharing on the iPhone can be as easy as on the Facebook. However, differently from the most forward social network, you can share on your iPhone without even knowing about it because of the Path – a new social media application that only seems to be a safe journal looking similarly to Instagram. According to [...]

Cyber Criminals Attack WordPress Platform

renata — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:59:29 +0000

Security company M86 Lab claims that “Phoenix” attack toolkit has targeted WordPress 3.2.1 platform. The company estimates that so far it could have infected hundreds of websites. This type of threat infects systems automatically by embedding exploit code into different websites. Once you visit an attacked website, these exploits will be distributed in your browser [...]

AV Security Essentials

gabriele — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:19:28 +0000

AV Security Essentials is a dangerous cyber threat, rogue anti-spyware, that uses basically the same methods as its forerunners Smart Anti-Malware Protection, Malware Protection Center and other ones. According to this malware, it is a perfect solution to protect your computer, files and data on it. However, in reality it’s useless and should never be [...]

Bouncer service will clean malicious apps from Android Market

gabriele — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:36:35 +0000

The most popular mobile operating system, Android, is going to be much safer because of a new service released by Google. Paying attention to the fact that scammers are actively using this market to spread their malware, they have just presented a service called Bouncer. It will scan the Android Market for malicious apps and [...]

Internet Security

renata — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:01:45 +0000

Internet Security is a fake antivirus program that belongs to the same family as Internet Security 2012. It is a clone of the former program, omitting the year number in the name. It is one more program that displays falsified information and imitates checking your system for infections while in fact it cannot detect anything. [...]

Smart Anti-Malware Protection

gabriele — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:00:05 +0000

Smart Anti-Malware Protection hails from the dangerous family of malwares that have been noticed spreading around in the beginning of this year. All the programs clearly mimic legitimate applications from Microsoft and use this similarity to make victims believe that they can trust them when dealing with viruses and purchase in order to save their [...]

ALOT Toolbar

gabriele — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:16:42 +0000

ALOT Toolbar is annoying application that redirects its victims to websites having nothing to do with results you normally get from your search engine. If you have ALOT Toolbar on your machine, you will receive only modified search results full of various commercials, so it’s recommended to uninstall this application from PC. Keeping it on [...]

Facebook sues the Adscend Media for spreading spam

gabriele — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:53:48 +0000

Looks like Facebook is taking action against spam – according to the latest news they have launched a lawsuit against the Adscend Media and its coowners Jeremy Bash and Fehzan Ali. These two men are accused for spreading spam using a variety of tactics (clickjacking, likejacking and others) that all have been helping them to [...]

Spammers use children to make easy attacks

gabriele — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:51:48 +0000

We should all be aware of spam – constant browsing educates us and trains how to deal with it. Of course, spammers also realize this as well and know all about those business trainings or spam filtering technologies that cost thousands of dollars. That’s why it’s normal that they identically improve their methods on how [...]

Antivirus Smart Protection

gabriele — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:27:29 +0000

Antivirus Smart Protection is a rogue anti-spyware which together with Malware Protection Center from Virus Doctor family. Though it looks trustworthy and legitimate, in reality it has nothing to do with a real situation on your computer because it designed to report only invented parasites. Additionally, you should categorize this scamware as a rogue anti-spyware [...]

Malware Protection Center

gabriele — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:38:56 +0000

Malware Protection Center is a typical scamware that represents one type of fake security programs – rogue anti-spywares. This application uses trojans for its successful infiltration and then starts to work on the main its aim – tries to swindle user’s money with a help of faked alerts and scanners. Note that this scam is [...]

Internet Security 2012

admin — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:15:14 +0000

Internet Security 2012 is a fake antivirus that is software, displaying lots of faked warnings without actually checking your system for parasites. This parasite related to Privacy Protection and Security Protection. This is another Rogue that uses generic names to prevent users from getting information about parasite and thus believing that they are purchasing something [...]

Smart Protection 2012

gabriele — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 08:38:29 +0000

Smart Protection 2012 is a rogue anti-spyware that applies misleading strategy in order to make its victims believe that they must purchase its licensed version. In reality, such version doesn’t even exist and malware should be removed from the system as soon as it manages to get there. To convice its victims that they should [...]

Internet Security Guard

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 09:30:37 +0000

Internet Security Guard is parasite of the same family as Home security Solutions. It mimics design of Microsoft security programs closely to convince visitors that it is an upgraded version of Microsoft security Essentials that can remove some of the parasites MSE can’t. However, Internet Security Guard is a nothing else than a rogue anti-spyware [...]

Ignore Metropolitan Police alert on your computer

gabriele — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:17:50 +0000

If you get an ‘official’ alert from Metropolitan Police, there is a huge possibility that you are included into international affair based on misleading message which is used by scammers to rip users off. To convince its victim sthat they will be fined for some illegal acitvities, like watching videos with adult content or banned [...]

Somoto

gabriele — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:57:54 +0000

From the first sight, Somoto.com (or Bigseekpro.com) looks like a real search engine that you can easily get for free together with different toolbars, add-ons, PDF creators, video recording, streaming and other software. However, no matter the fact that these toolbars haven’t been found to spread malware, in reality they should be categorized as browser [...]

Ramnit financial worm is spread on Facebook

gabriele — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:04:41 +0000

Isreali researchers Seculert report about financial malware named Ramnit which is currently spreading through Facebook. Be aware about this worm because you can lose your login information just like thousands of other users registered on this social network. Since the September 2011 to December, Ramnit has already managed to steal login information from more than [...]

New version of Google Chrome presents safe browsing technology

gabriele — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:57:54 +0000

Malware vendors should be concerned about the new feature which is incorporated in the the latest version of the popular Chrome browser. According to Google Chrome Blog, this feature will warn computer users about the malware that they are going to download from a website. Though this Safe Browsing technology is not a new thing [...]

Saudi hackers spread 14.000 credit card details as a New Year gift

gabriele — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:44:36 +0000

According to the announcement of one Saudi Arabian hacking group, more than 400.000 Israelis have lost their sensitive information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, ID numbers and credit card details. This info has additionally been spread on the Internet and used for unauthorized Internet purchases. However, according to the Israeli paper Haaretz, much of [...]

System Check

gabriele — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:23:49 +0000

System Check is a dangerous application that should be named ‘the fake PC defragmenter’. This tool is released by the same FakeSysDef malware creators who should be blamed for releasing Data Repair, System Fix and other scams that report about invented hard drive problems detected on your PC. Please, keep in mind that you must [...]