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Malware Protection Center
Malware Protection Center is a malicious program that was designed by computer hackers in order to steal money from random computer users. The program warns that your system is infected and recommends getting a full version of Malware Protection Center in order to remove infections that have been detected on your machine and protect your [...]
posted 24 January 2012 @ 10:06 by renata
Antivirii 2011
Antivirii 2011 is a fake antivirus application that was designed by computer hackers in order to steal money from random computer users. The program gets inside the system with the help of Trojan viruses. This infiltration is completely secret as Trojans have this ability to make it completely invisible.
Once inside, Antivirii 2011 is configured to [...]
13 December 2011 » read »
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 [...]
26 August 2010 » read »
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 [...]
posted 3 June 2010 @ 4:36 by renata
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 [...]
17 May 2010 » read »
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 [...]
6 July 2009 » read »
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.”
If you see this or similar alerts on [...]
posted 26 June 2009 @ 2:31 by Ignas
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 [...]
16 June 2009 » read »
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 [...]
2 June 2009 » read »
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 [...]