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McAfee Labs :

Scary screensavers, take two

Wednesday, June 18, 2008 at 8:43am by Paolo Palumbo
Paolo Palumbo

In one of my previous blog posts, I did write about FakeAlert-AG’s fear strategy, that consisted of changing the desktop background, and dropping the legitimate “bugs” screensaver. Well, we’ve seen that in newer variants of this threat the authors of this threat kept the same strategy, but they did change the screensaver to one that is way more scary for computer users…

Yes, you guessed right, the BlueScreen screensaver!!!

The bluescreen screensaver in action!

As in the previous case, the screensaver chosen by the author(s) of this threat is a legitimate application, this time coming from SysInternals, a company well known for its active contributions to the security community. However, the effect of such a screensaver is such that we’re afraid that it may have tricked several users.

Logging off,

Paolo

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  • jeff September 8, 2008 4:40AM

    How do you remove it? My screen saver tab has disappeared and it does not appear in add/remove. AVG & other virus softwares don’t find it..

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