Monthly Archives: April 2011

ROTW: “Total Security” and Antivirus IS

April 25, 2011 – 9:00 am

By Brenden Vaughan and Andrew Brandt This week, our support and advanced malware removal (AMR) team did not have a lot of new data to report about rogue security products. The most commonly encountered infection continues to be one of the rogues we reported about last week. While we may refer to it as XP [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in Advanced Malware Removal, hijack search results, Internet Explorer, mal-effects, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Rogues of the Week: XP Total Security & MS Removal Tool

April 18, 2011 – 9:00 am

By Andrew Brandt It’s been said that sunlight sanitizes almost everything it shines on. Beginning this week, and every week from now on, we’ll focus a concentrated beam on the rogue antivirus programs our support staff and Threat Research team have been working to remediate. Rogues have a tendency to switch up their names, user [...]

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Korean Rogues’ Slapfight Bonanza

April 11, 2011 – 8:40 pm

By Andrew Brandt The other day, Threat Reseacher Dan Para sent along the video clip below, which gave us all a good laugh. Dan had been researching a Korean-language Trojan downloader, but when he ran the file, he didn’t expect the downloader to retrieve not one…not two…but three separate rogue antivirus products. The most amusing [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in adware, Downloaders, Rogue Security Products, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , | Comments (4)

Facebook-Spamming Worm Wants Your Eyeballs

April 6, 2011 – 4:15 pm

(Update, July 11, 2011:  On May 25, 2011, we were contacted by representatives of Future Ads, LLC, the parent company of both Playsushi and Gamevance.  Future Ads informed us that they, too, had been victims of a scam perpetrated by rogue affiliates who seemed to be involved with the malicious campaigns we described in this [...]

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Webroot Answers Your Security Questions

April 5, 2011 – 9:05 am

By Andrew Brandt I’m very pleased to present today the first in a series of videos we’ve produced. The videos have the lofty goal of addressing the most pressing questions relating to malware, cybercrime, and online fraud. We’ll take you behind the scenes at Webroot and introduce you to some of our Threat Research team [...]

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