Comments on: No Search is Sacred: Fakealerts Flood the Net http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/ WEBROOT - INSIGHTS INTO THREATS AND TRENDS FROM OUR INTERNET SECURITY EXPERTS Thu, 23 May 2013 07:00:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Internet Security Trends – A Look Back at 2009, A Look Ahead to 2010 « Webroot Threat Blog http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-27869 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:16:14 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-27869 [...] sophisticated malware — cybercriminals using email to distribute malicious Web links and manipulating SEO by programming malicious links near the top of search results for popular news stories — and [...]

]]> By: Andrew Brandt http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-1465 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:13:59 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-1465 You should stop spamming blog comments with links to a rogue av product.

]]> By: Antivirus http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-1451 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:44:35 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-1451 OMG I go that fake software illustrated few days ago. They advised me malwarebytes but it won’t install

What should I do?

]]> By: Andrew Brandt http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-486 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:42:51 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-486 You can also use the key combination Alt-F4 to close the browser window without clicking anything. But your method will work as well.

]]> By: Andrew Brandt http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-485 Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:41:22 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-485 The blog started on March 23, 2009. This post was made in October, 2009. And yes, we know that this family of rogue antivirus products has been around a while. The point of this post wasn’t to alert users to the existence of this rogue — frankly, if you work in IT, you’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard of it — but to the new techniques being used to market it through manipulated search results.

]]> By: michael http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-477 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:57:51 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-477 Forewarned about the fake security alert, I knew to try to escape immediately without clicking on anything other than close (the “X”). When the rogue would not let me exit the program or even close Explorer, I successfully used Windows Task Manage (ctrl-alt-del) to end the application.

]]> By: Dissenter http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-475 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:24:50 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-475 Interesting information, but when was this blog started? I had worked on two computers from two different clients. The same fake anti-virus program infected the computers. “Antivirus 2009.”

Maybe you should get this information out a little quicker?

]]> By: Carl Barrows http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-471 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:35:47 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-471 I was doing a search on Yahoo! and ended up downloading a rogue anti-virus program called Antivirus System PRO. It has a trojan.fakeAV virus in it and gave fake AV alerts , controlled IE 8.0 in Windows 7, added registry keys, and was a bear to get rid of even with Norton Internet Security 2009 and Webroot Antivirus scanners installed. These guys behind these bogus AV programs should be tracked down, prosecuted and jailed.

]]> By: NJ http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-470 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:47:40 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-470 When will our lawmakers in Washington enact some punishing legislation with jail time for all these hackers? Why is Google allowing it’s site to be kidnapped like this?

]]> By: Anonymous http://blog.webroot.com/2009/10/07/no-search-is-sacred-fakealerts-flood-the-net/#comment-336 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:55:49 +0000 http://blog.webroot.com/?p=1337#comment-336 BTW, What about Bing.com? I think there searches are safer then Google.

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