Articles Archive for 11 January 2010
Posted in Information and Removal on 11 January 2010
After the holidays, spammers now are capitalizing on the upcoming tax season.
Recently, Trend Micro threat analysts found spammed messages purporting to come from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The spammed message bears the subject, “W-2 Form update,” and informs users to update the said form because of supposed “important changes.” The W-2 form states an employee’s [...]
Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
Posted in Information and Removal on 11 January 2010
PC Defender (also called as PCDefender) is a rogue anti-spyware application from the same family as PC Defender 2008. Just like its relative programs, PC Defender promotes itself through the malware, spam e-mail attachments and insecure websites. It is practically impossible to notice all this infiltration of PCDefender, so after being installed with the help [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 11 January 2010
Buy-internet-security.com seems to be a useful website from what its domain says. However, it’s another browser hijacker that seeks to promote Internet Security 2010 fake anti-spyware. Buy-internet-security.com hijacks your browser by changing some of your browser’s settings. Then it keeps redirecting you to Buy-internet-security.com website where Internet Security 2010 application is promoted. It gives a [...]
