More about a malware scam
I previously posted about malware pretending to be an anti-virus program and creating phony reviews of itself. Ars Technica has some more on this subject:
It’s always interesting to watch what little hooks and schemes the malware industry has cooked up in an attempt to better bait the public and the new Anti-Virus-1 package doesn’t disappoint. AV-1 is a cute mixture of scareware and malware, and while we’ve seen XP Antivirus playing this turf for years, AV-1 adopts a few new tactics of its own. Once run, the program installs its particular Trojan of choice (Zlob and Vundo are apparently popular options), then makes certain modifications to the hosts file.
Note the term “scareware”, which refers to such tactics as popup windows that claim that your system has just been scanned and that you have been found to be infected. Click on the link that offers to clean up your system and then you will be infected for sure. I posted an example of this scummy tactic last year.
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