There are many Rogue antispyware programs, some of which will actually infect your machine rather than clean it. Or at the least, prove useless.
Countless victims seen in the help forums are infected by the Zlob trojan, which poses as a codec (compressor/decompressor) needed to view a video, often downloaded from websites with adult content.
Zlob installs a variety of fake malware and alerts users to download a rogue anti-spyware program to remove it, or installs the program on your computer without permission.
Rogue programs include those which rip off legitimate antispyware programs by playing on names.
As Bill Pytlovany blogged at “Bits from Bill”:
AntiSpyware Advertising Gets Nasty
I’m pretty confident, both Spywarebot ads are from the same company who have a couple dozen AntiSpyware products available under different names and domains. Neither are related to the popular “Spybot, Search and Destroy” program.
Doing one’s homework before downloading, can save you a much bigger headache than the time it takes to read.
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