Dedicated 2-viruses

Tearspear

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Thu, 31 May 2012 19:34:36 +0000

Tearspear is a Trojan infection that is designed to access remote websites and download some dangerous software to your system. It makes your system very unstable since your PC will be infected with additional parasites. As all such trojans, TearSpear will launch on each system reboot. This trojan will try to contact designated control servers [...]

Windows Antivirus Rampart

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Wed, 30 May 2012 06:46:05 +0000

Windows Antivirus Rampart is the latest released rogue antivirus program from Fake.Vimes family. Just like the previous versions of FakeVime, the program imitates actions of antivirus and tries to get money by selling its useless program. At first the program reports about a bunch of viruses detected on your system and then tries to convince [...]

Why are there porn related ads on Google Homepage?

renata — Tue, 29 May 2012 15:28:01 +0000

Computer users have started complaining about seeing porn related Google ads on their Google home page. They do not come as a search result but straight after opening up Google’s homepage. There are several topics about this problem created on security forums so that means there are more infected people. The problems persists users who [...]

Windows Ultimate Security Patch

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:28:00 +0000

Although the name Windows Ultimate Security Patch is new for most of internet users, yet if one has a closer look, he will see that it is only the latest rogue antivirus released by FakeVimes family. Its only goal is to earn money by tricking naive computer users into spending their salaries on buying a [...]

A new Stuxnet-like malware has been discovered by Iranians

renata — Mon, 28 May 2012 14:12:36 +0000

MAHER (the Iranian Computer Emergency Response Team) says that is has detected a new malware that is related to Stuxnet worm. The new badware is called Flammer worm. It has targeted Iranian companies at the beginning of May and none of the 43 antivirus programs have managed to detect it. Just like Stuxnet, Flammer spreads [...]

Windows Defence Counsel

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Mon, 28 May 2012 04:54:23 +0000

Have you recently got an alert from Windows Defence Counsel that your computer is infected? Are you worried about it? From the first look this rogue may look like a legitimate program that will help to protect your computer and its alerts are not a joke. Alas it is useless in detecting and removing any [...]

Windows Guard Tools

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Fri, 25 May 2012 10:23:08 +0000

Windows Guard Tools is a a fake antispyware program that imitates functions of a legitimate tool expecting computer users to fall for this trick. The program looks pretty trustworthy if you just look at it. However, it only compromises computer systems and swindle the money away. Windows Guard Tools gets inside the targeted system using [...]

Windows Safety Maintenance

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Thu, 24 May 2012 10:25:36 +0000

Windows Safety Maintenance is the new rogue antivirus program released by FakeVimes family. The purpose of this badware is to steal some money from less experienced computer users. Just like its predecessors Windows Safety Maintenance warns about some spyware infections and recommends removing them by purchasing its full version. Unfortunately, it only wants to earn [...]

System Protection Tools

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Wed, 23 May 2012 12:42:34 +0000

System Protection Tools is a fake antispyware program that was designed by computer hackers in order to steal money from random computer users. It belongs to the same family of rogues as Best Antvirus Software and Best Virus Protection. The program gets insided the targeted system with a help of Trojan viruses. At the very [...]

Windows Multi Control System

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:28:16 +0000

Windows Multi Control System is the latest sample of rogue antivirus that was obviously released by FakeVimes family in order to earn some money. Just like earlier variants the hail from this group of rogues, Windows Multi Control System can also be named as aggressive and quite stealthy application that firstly reports about invented viruses [...]

Antispyware Pro 2012 – a (probably) Fake Parasite

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Tue, 22 May 2012 20:52:23 +0000

It is quite interesting to watch how little data is enough to create a removal instructions for a parasite. Everyone tries to win SEO game without checking actual data about the parasite. I doubt anyone have seen Antispyware Pro 2012 yet too. Today I have noticed that some anti-malware bloggers wrote some removal instructions about [...]

Fake Advanced Security Center

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Tue, 22 May 2012 11:49:25 +0000

Fake Advanced Security Center is a feature of FakeVimes family of rogues. Typically to this group, it tends to present itself as legitimate application from Windows and bombard its victims with misleading pop-up ads and notifications as soon as it gets on the system. Then it displays Advanced Security Center that shows falsified scan results. [...]

Ignore Facebook account cancellation alert!

gabriele — Tue, 22 May 2012 10:41:57 +0000

Cyber criminals have started to use another way for spreading their malware. Now they are targeting users who have decided that they don’t want to join the most popular social network any more. Scammers have been found to spread trickily-looking emails asking their victims to confirm or deny Facebook account cancellation request. If you also [...]

Medfos

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Mon, 21 May 2012 10:35:35 +0000

Trojan Win32.Medfos is a Trojan Horse that redirects Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox to some pay per click websites. These websites include: googleppcfeed.com, marketingppcfeed.com, payviaclick.com, ppcstream.com and similar. Once infected ,you will also start receiving tons of pop up alerts out of nowhere. Win32.Medfos.B is installed secretly, using system vulnerabilities. Mostly this includes spam email [...]

Windows Private Shield

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Sun, 20 May 2012 07:26:21 +0000

Windows Private Shield is a dangerous malware program that tries to make its victims believe that they have numerous viruses on their computers. Keep in mind that this rogue is capable to impact its target PC only in the worst way, so don’t waste your time dealing with it and remove Windows Private Shield as [...]

Net-Worm

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Sun, 20 May 2012 03:09:13 +0000

Net-Worm means a computer parasite that is distributed through network vulnerabilities and is able to infect PCs through network. This name is generic, that means it is detection of class of parasites rather a specific one. However, usually it is a hoax that is displayed by FakeVimes family of rogue parasites. In any case, you [...]

Stekct

gabriele — Fri, 18 May 2012 13:14:48 +0000

Stekct is a malicious internet worm which tries to open a backdoor connection to the compromised computer. Then it uses users social network and internet messaging systems to send spam messages containing a link to itself. These are the social networks and IMs affected by this worm: AIM Google Talk ICQ MSN Yahoo! Messenger Facebook [...]

Windows Pro Safety Release

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:10:19 +0000

Windows Pro Safety Release is another cyber threat that looks trustworthy but in reality belongs to FakeVimes family of rogue antiviruses. Typically to earlier threats hailing from this family, Windows Pro Safety uses the same GUI and scareware techniques that is expected by the bad guys to help them in stealing users’ money. Under no circumstances [...]

Windows Safeguard Upgrade

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Thu, 17 May 2012 07:49:26 +0000

Windows Safeguard Upgrade is the most typical example of rogue anti-spyware that was clearly released by malicious company of scammers called FakeVimes. Similarly to earlier its variants, it uses the same GUI and identically looking alerts reporting about invented viruses, like trojans and keyloggers. You must keep in mind that all its alerts and scanners have [...]

Sirefef

Giedrius Majauskas (admin) — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:13:30 +0000

Sirefef is a malicious multicomponent trojan family, which modifies search results, generated pay-per-click traffic for cybercriminals. This Trojan family consists of different components, which performs different tasks like downloading updates and additional malware, then hiding it from the system and running payloads. Sirefef variants may display pop up advertisements that interrupt the user of computer. [...]