February has already begun, which means Valentine’s Day is close at hand. As usual, spammers will definitely hype up their malicious activities. It is only the first day of the so-called “love month” but we have already seen at least two spam samples leveraging one of the most-celebrated special occasions when people flock to websites [...]

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Early Hearts’ Day Presents from Spammers

The Internet has grown to become a massive venue for information exchange that everything a user encounters on the Web may potentially be treacherous, including supposed antivirus software. Trend Micro Threat Encyclopedia has, so far, over 2,000 entries related to FAKEAV.

Many naive users still fall for the age-old ruse that rogue antivirus peddlers use—scareware tactics—to [...]

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Much Ado About FAKEAV

Win 7 Antivirus Pro is a rogue program that similarly to its relative programs Antivirus Vista 2010, Win 7 Antispyware 2010 or other ones pretends to be an update for Windows installed via Automatic Updates. However, when inside the system it becomes very aggressive application which is very hard to remove. Win 7 Antivirus Pro [...]

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XP Antivirus Pro 2010 (also called XPAntivirusPro2010) program is a fake security application which usually recommends for its victims to activate its “licensed” version. Trying to convince them even more, XP AntivirusPro 2010 imitates scanning the computer for malware and detects hundreds of invented cyber threats. Additionally, for their elimination so called “licensed” program is [...]

In fact, MyPcSecure (also called as My Pc Secure) is a rogue anti-spyware program which hails from the huge family of malwares called WiniSoft. MyPcSecure has numbers of clones where PCSecureNet, APcSecure and APcSafe are the latest of them. All these programs are dedicated to push trustful people into paying their money for the commercial [...]

In the beginning, Antivirus Soft looks like a perfectly normal and legitimate anti-spyware. Note: don’t fall into its professionally created looks because just after being installed into the system it reveals to be just a new variant of Antivirus Live. Hailing from this nasty rogue, Antivirus Soft should be called just the upgraded version which [...]

AntiMalware Defender is another version of rogue anti-viruses that pretend being made by Microsoft. This scamware is distributed using fake alerts about a new update for Windows operating system. That supposed update contains AntiMalware defender. The alert looks like this :
Antimalware security update for Windows XP (KB961118)
Size: 433KB
This critical update will install System [...]