Rogue-Personal Antivirus

by certifiedbug on April 17, 2009

in Scareware Rogues

While performing a search I saw the red warning circle given by Web Of Trust (WOT) to sites they have rated dangerous.

Normally one should stop there people but I was digging. In a clean, uninfected virtual machine I opened the url which took awhile to load its nasty stuff and then the popups began.

“Don’t close this window if your want you PC to be clean” :roll:

Certifiedbug. September 6, 2008.
http://certifiedbug.com/blog/2008/09/06/smartantivirus2009-rogue-security-program/

Harry Waldon has a nice article Malware Close Encounters – Close Pop-ups using Task Manager to safely exit which could help users to exit a pop-up install before too much damage is inflicted.

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