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26 August 2010
Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert
Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert is one more Trojan virus created by cyber criminals in order to gain some easy money. The Trojan was created to infiltrate 5 rogue programs to random computer systems. The programs are titled: Major Defense Kit, Peak Protection 2010, AntiSpy Safeguard, Pest Detector 4.1 and Red Cross Antivirus. All of [...]
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3 June 2010
AV Security Suite
AV Security Suite is a newly launched rogue program, the purpose of which is to deceive computer users and make them think it’s a legitimate antispyware program. The program is designed to display tons of frightening pop up messages and security notifications and scare computer user his system contains tons of infections. Then AV Security [...]
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17 May 2010
SystemArmor
SystemArmor is a rogue security program that belongs to Wini Family of rogues. It spreads to computers through Trojans and is also promoted on its fake websites. Without your permission, the program creates some files and later runs its fake scanner and detects these files as infections. In reality they are completely harmless.
SystemArmor seeks to [...]
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6 July 2009
Fake AntivirusBEST alert “Internet Explorer Warning- Activate AntivirusBEST”
Internet Explorer Warning – Activate AntivirusBEST is a bogus security alert produced by rogue anti-spyware AntivirusBEST in order to trick you into purchasing this parasite. The full warning reads:
Internet Explorer Warning – visiting his web site may harm your computer!Most likely causes:The website contains exploits that can launch a malicious code on your computer
Suspicious network [...]
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26 June 2009
Resident Shield Alert Pop-up
Resident Shield Alert is a bogus security alert generated by the rogue anti-spyware program named VirusCleaner. The infections showed below are fake. This rogue tries to convince you that your computer is infected with Win32/Heur. virus
“Resident Shield Alert
Accessed file is infected
Threat detected!
File name: C:\WINDOWS\504052.exe
Threat name: Virus found Win32/Heur
Detected onopen.”
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16 June 2009
Fake System Security Firewall Alert
System Security Firewall Alert is a bogus security alert displayed by a rogue anti-spyware program called System Security 2009. The “System Security Firewall Alert” states that your computer is infected with a worm called Lsas.Blaster.Keylogger. It claims that this worm tries to send your credit card details using Internet Explorer. This fake alert reads:
“System Security [...]
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2 June 2009
Fake “Critical vulnerables found!” Pop-up
“Critical vulnerables found!” pop-up is a fake security alert generated by rogue security software called Advanced Virus Remover. The main purpose of this fake pop-up is to scare into thinking that your computer is seriously infected. It is understandable that all these infections are also fake. This fake security alert reads:
“Critical vulnerables found! Proactive system [...]
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8 May 2009
Fake alert: “Your Computer might be at Risk!” Popup
“Your Computer might be at Risk!” Popup is a bogus security alert generated by rogue anti-spyware application called Antivirus XP Pro 2009. Fake pop-ups are used widely by rogue applications. The main purpose of fake alerts and pop-ups is to scare the user into purchasing Antivirus XP Pro 2009. The full “Your Computer might be [...]
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3 May 2009
CoreGuard Antivirus 2009 Popup
“CoreGuard Antivirus 2009″ Popup is yet another bogus security notification generated by rogue anti-spyware program called CoreGuard Antivirus 2009. The rogue claims that there is unauthorized antivirus software detected on your computer and recommends you to remove it. “CoreGuard Antivirus 2009″ Popup reads:
“There is unauthorized antivirus software detected on your computer. It is recommended to [...]
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2 May 2009
Fake CoreGuard Security Alert
“Coreguard Security Alert” is just another fake security alert generated by rogue anti-spyware application called CoreGuard Antivirus 2009. It should be ignored, because this fake notification is shown in order to scare you. Full “Coreguard Security Alert” notification reads:
“Coreguard security alert.
Your computer is being attacked from a remote PC. Attack from 47.23.251.224:29650. Block your computer [...]