3,021 posts tagged malware

MalwareScanner Threat Level: MalwareScanner is more fake anti-spyware. You have to manually download MalwareScanner. Once you make that mistake, MalwareScanner tries to scare you into buying it with MalwareScanner popups and exaggerated scans. Unless you like getting ripped off, don’t buy MalwareScanner.

So says the research department of PC Tools, apparently. I was intrigued as I’ve investigated security in Vista. I went along to the PC Tools site in search of more information. Unfortunately there is no relevant press release in the news section or other details.

This is the Trend Micro detection for Web pages that were compromised through the insertion of a certain iFrame tag. Once an unsuspecting user views an infected Web page, it attempts to connect to a known malicious Web site. However, the site is inaccessible as of this writing.

Spyware Doctor 2008 + Crack + RegFix Spyware Doctor is an advanced adware and spyware removal utility that detects and cleans thousands of potential spyware, ad ware, trojans, keyloggers, spy ware cookies, trackware, spybots and other malware from your PC. This tool allows you to remove, ignore or quarantine identified Spyware.

Product Information Ad-Aware SE Professional is designed to provide you with the highest level of protection against malicious spyware and malware including keyloggers, hijackers and downloaders. Lavasoft’s CSI technology protects you from both known and emerging threat variants and gives you real-time protection for your computer with our advanced Ad-Watch real-time monitor.

AntiMalware Guard is fake anti-malware. AntiMalware Guard displays fraudulent results as well as fake system alerts. Never purchase this product. You can remove AntiMalware Guard with MalwareBytes Anti-Malware or RogueRemover. Hmmmm…lets see who registered the domain for this rogue anti-malware.

phpBB servers are being hacked to serve the ZLOB trojan.

NOD32 Antivirus System 2.000.9 May 13th, 2008 NOD32 Antivirus System provides balanced protection against threats endangering your PC. Viruses, worms, and other malware are kept out of striking distance from your valuable data.

Drive-by download attack compromises 500K websites May 13th, 2008 Drive-by download attack compromises 500K websites A funny thing happened on the way to the forum More than half a million web pages have been compromised with malware as part of a new attack, Trend Micro warns.… Read more…

In this review I pit Kaspersky AntiVirus 7.0.1 against a highly infected virtual machine with 100+ pieces of malware. The Kaspersky review is broken up into 3 parts (for YouTube). Writing about an AntiVirus product isn’t enough; you need to see how well (or not well) it performs under the worst possible situations…I think I’m doing that.