xpsecuritycenter Rogue Security Program

by certifiedbug on May 9, 2008

in Scareware Rogues

xpsecuritycenter has only two pages in Google at the moment, it may not be regarded as a serious threat as it was noticed in the Spring of 2008. However, xpsecuritycenter belongs to a family of rogues.

Many people rely on Site Advisor to check if a domain is good or bad, but site advisor is extremely slow to test and rate, surprising as the site belongs to Symantec McAfee.

For instance malwarebell.com was added to Symantec.com’s Rapid Release April 16, 2008

Yet at Site Advisor it still isn’t rated as of writing, and what about pandora-software.com which was given a green rank.

We tested this site and didn’t find any significant problems.

The domain name might have been a tip off.

An experienced reviewer at Site Advisor posted January 2008 that pandora-software.com is a malicious domain.

Update 2009

When we tested this site we found links to perfectcleaner2007.com, which we found to be a distributor of downloads some people consider adware, spyware or other potentially unwanted programs.

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