Articles Archive for 27 January 2010
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 January 2010
Even before the first user could buy the latest and upcoming Apple technology, the iPad, cybercriminals are already making their profits from it by taking advantage of its popularity.
Trend Micro Threat Engineers found today some malicious search results when searching for news or information related to the announcement of the Apple Tablet.
These are poisoned [...]
Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 January 2010
A few minutes ago I noticed that a friend of mine had posted the following status to her Facebook profile:
Facebook status
Of course this got my bat senses tingling and I smelled a panic-inducing spiral of insanity brewing, so I thought I’d have a bit of a look around.
Nothing to worry about here as far as [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 January 2010
Registry Elite (or RegistryElite) is a freshly released fake registry cleaner that has possibilities to detect problems on a brand new and completely clean computer system. Registry Elite will try to make you doubt about your computer though there will be nothing what should make you concerned. We have already announced about PC Doc Pro [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 January 2010
Spy Doc Pro is a total scam that poses to be a reputable and legitimate program, created for the only purpose – to improve PC security and its functionalities. However, in reality it’s the opposite because it reports infections that are false and should be ignored instead of being removed from the system. To become [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 January 2010
News involving celebrity deaths (real or hoax) have a habit of spreading across the Internet like wildfire, sensationalizing bits of information to entice readers. So, it is easy to see why pranksters and cybercriminals exploit the fact that people love gossip.
So when rumors of Johnny Depp’s supposed death due to a car crash broke out, [...]
Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog - by Trend Micro
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 January 2010
PC Doc Pro pretends to be a reputable registry cleaner which is promoted on various websites to “hunt down registry problems, glitches, and other corrupt junk files” from every computer. However, in reality it is a fake optimizer which will announce hundreds of invented errors detected even a machine is completely new. PCDocPro seeks to [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 27 January 2010
Live Enterprise Suite is a dangerous rogue anti-spyware that “detects” legitimate Windows files as infections and additionally offers its paid services for removing them. LiveEnterpriseSuite was released by the same scammers who should be blamed for letting Ghost Antivirus and Internet Antivirus Pro outside, so just like the first ones, it uses aggressive techniques to [...]
