Monthly Archives: April 2011

Antimalware Doctor removal

Antimalware Doctor is a fake antivirus used by malevolent persons to infect computer users for various purposes: – immediate financial gain by tricking the innocent user to buy a license to remove the infections found– of course fake detections; – stealing of your credit card details if a naïve user falls into the trap and follows the instructions to buy the activating license for this fake antivirus; – continuous display of pop up advertisements; By distributing this malware, the “cyber-criminals” can hide other malicious intentions aswell, it has an uninterrupted connection to an IP address(malicious domain), listening for commands. In my test this IP address was : 93.186.170.62( kgbtoe.in malware …

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Google Images redirects to a new virus

I wrote in the past an article about how a simple Google Image search is hijacked and lead to a fake antivirus. That fake antivirus, Windows Security was an obfuscated Java Script running in the browser and imitating the Windows Explorer but it was not able to do any harms other than irritating the users with repeated fake alerts pop-ups. Of course the solution to solve these false computer infections is offered and this is to download and install another rogue program AntiSpyWareSetup.exe. You don’t need a lot of online experience to realize that by installing the rogue software  your system will be infected for real and maybe compromised because once …

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ZenOK Free Antivirus Professional 2012 review

Only 3 months have passed from this year– 2011 and 2012 versions of some software starts to appear.  ZenOK Antivirus Protection Professional 2012, is intended to be a complete and professional protection for your computer and data(very important !). If we consider the existing two different approaches of the defense, the active defense consisting of installing a good antivirus with antispyware and firewall module and the passive defense consisting of  a secured backup of your most important files or data, then ZenOK Antivirus covers both.     However, if the antivirus is free, the backup feature(storage and service) of ZenOK antivirus  has a price: – 5GB + Increased Security is …

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