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MSRT Top Detection Reports for August 2009

by certifiedbug on August 28, 2009

in Microsoft

This month the Microsoft Malware Protection Center added a new threat family, Win32/FakeRean, to the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool -which by August 24 had cleaned FakeRean from 162,328 infected machines.

The Report
Win32/FakeRean and MSRT

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Innovative Marketing Update

by certifiedbug on February 11, 2009

in Internet Security

Sandi at Spyware Sucks.

I’ll include some history of events so that you can get a sense of perspective with regards to the time frame around these events.

Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous, and an update about the status of the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

Certifiedbug:
Federal Trade Commission bites Innovative Marketing (WinFixer and other Rogues)

FTC complaint against Innovative Marketing

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FTC complaint against Innovative Marketing

December 10, 2008

PDF here, these people are scary.

More than one million consumers have been scammed into purchasing the Defendants’ software products to remove non-existent problems “detected” by the Defendants’ fake scans. The rogues invariably scared users into believing their computer was infested by malicious files, programs or “illegal” pornography, inducing panic and a purchase which led to [...]

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Federal Trade Commission bites Innovative Marketing (WinFixer and other Rogues)

December 10, 2008

FTC Press Release
Court Halts Bogus Computer Scans
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has issued a temporary halt to a massive “scareware” scheme, which falsely claimed that scans had detected viruses, spyware, and illegal pornography on consumers’ computers. According to the FTC, the scheme has tricked more than one million [...]

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MMPC-Journey of a Rogue

December 10, 2008

Speaking of rogues, which I do a lot, I am always on the lookout for more information about the infections we see on victims computers in the help forums.
One of my feed subscriptions is to the Microsoft® Malware Protection Center blog and I was drawn to the title of a new article, “FakeXPA… Journey of [...]

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SpywareInfo.com domain sold, beware

December 7, 2008

Mike Healan’s original anti spyware domain has been sold in his absence, whoever purchased it has a new page showing links to rogue programs.
They hide,
Registrant: Moniker Privacy Services
20 SW 27th Ave. Suite 201 Pompano Beach, FL 33069
United States
Domain Name: SPYWAREINFO.COM
Created on: 25-Oct-01
Expires on: 25-Oct-09
Last Updated on: 06-Dec-08
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SEDOPARKING.COM
NS2.SEDOPARKING.COM
Rogues included Antivirus 2009 among [...]

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MSRT Review on Win32/FakeSecSen Rogues

November 20, 2008

An updated version of the Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is released on the second Tuesday of each month, and as needed to respond to security incidents.
Added to MSRT’s November release, Win32/FakeSecSen has been removed from 994,061 distinct machines, 548,218 of them in the USA.
Microsoft® Malware Protection Center.
Now how did one’s machine get [...]

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Microsoft and Washington State’s lawsuits reveal ’scareware’ defendants

September 29, 2008

Fright Fight: Washington Attorney General leading battle against scareware with Microsoft
SEATTLE – Attorney General Rob McKenna stood at the frontlines with Microsoft Corp. in the war against spyware in 2006. Now armed with tougher legislation, the state’s top law enforcement officer, with the world’s largest software company, is charging forward with new lawsuits targeting scareware [...]

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Click heels three times

September 15, 2008

Apparently it has proved difficult for Registers to prevent malware domains from registering, and swiftly cleaning up those with a history of abuse.
At least not without headlines and community outrage which has recently resulted in thousands of bad sites being closed down.
As I said before, “Does it take articles in the Washington Post before anything [...]

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Cyber Crime USA

August 28, 2008

hostexploit.com
It has become increasingly apparent the malware, spam, phishing and other BadWare distributors are now engaged in automated domain generation, 100’s to 1,000’s per week, which is proving a serious difficulty for major domain / IP ‘blocklist’ and ‘blacklist’ providers to simply keep up . Added to this we now have; iFrame attacks [...]

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