Author Archives: John Barrett
Fake virustotal.com website leading to malware
With over 200.000 of submissions per day, http://www.virustotal.com is the greatest online scanner for malware and dubious URL’s. All the major antivirus engines are combined in a very fast and free service, giving a more accurate idea about the character of a submitted file — malware or not, much more accurate than a single antivirus and thus it has a huge number of visitors aka submitters. This was speculated recently by malicious persons in a spreading malware attempt. They were created a fake virustotal.com website, a so called “clone”. The “clones”, fake websites of well-known websites are intensively used by hackers to trick the visitors and provoke them to introduce …
XP Home Security 2011 fake antivirus removal
We are assisting nowadays at a proliferation of the fake antiviruses, the things flows as in a bourse depending on demands and offers. More and more advanced new computer viruses come out everyday, people hear about them and as a result there is an increased demand for antivirus software, a good thing maybe you will say but that’s exactly the thing that malefic virus creators tries to speculate. So, I think it’s a good idea to talk about XP Home Security 2011 fake antivirus removal. Spreading fake antiviruses, fake antimalware or fake antispyware become a profitable business. It’s about the same family of fake antiviruses even if the names differs : …
Scam websites and email spam
Spamming emails with advertising messages is the prefered way of the unscrupulous marketers to conduct their business, it has the big advantage that there is a guarantee that somebody will read their emails. Spamming emails become a whole industry, there are groups focused only on harvesting valid tens of thousands of email addresses; after that they can sell them to unethical marketers for good money or spam these email addresses with advertising messages, depending of what type of orders they take. For example if someone who is registering using his email address for a fake anti malware software free license, it’s in danger to have passed the email address to …
Another new trojan computer virus in the wild
As not being many enough, it seems a new trojan computer virus written in Delphi programming language was born and now is circulating free on cyberspace. The author of this trojan claims that it have a very little foot print on the infected systems and has a very low detection rate according to novirusthanks.org, see report. I’ve scanned it at novirusthanks.org because at the time of written this virustotal.com was temporarily out of service. In fact the detections are the results of the heuristic analysis, the trojan has not yet a name and a signature in antivirus databases. This new trojan uses a less common configuration: while the most virus …
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 …
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 …
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 …
