Since the beginning of October we have seen a variant of fake antivirus malware that belongs to the FakeRean family of rogue security products. FakeRean is distributed by drive-by downloads or is dropped and executed by another malware. It blocks victims from accessing any other legitimate application on an infected machine. Like other fake AV Read more…
Tags: Defender 2013, fake-av, FakeRean, Multiplatform FakeAV, MultiRogue, rogue security software, Vista Defender 2013, Win7 Defender 2013, XPDefender 2013
System Progressive Protection, a new malware pretending to be antivirus software, first appeared a couple of days ago. It belongs to the Winwebsec family of rogue security products. The malware is distributed by drive-by downloads or is dropped and executed by another malware. It blocks its victims from accessing any other application on an infected Read more…
Tags: fake security software, fake-av, FAKEAV, Proactive Corporation, rogue antivirus, System Progressive Protection
McAfee Labs researchers have seen an increase in instances of the McAfee SECURE logo being falsified as part of a “ransomware” campaign. Once a machine is infected, the malware checks to see which country the user is located in. It then displays a localized graphic containing a police logo and a message announcing that the Read more…
Tags: fake alert, fake-av, Ransomware, rogue security software
This past weekend, various postgraduate students in France ended their academic year by making final modifications in their theses. On Sunday, I assisted some of them. While browsing the Internet for some last-minute data, they suffered the fright of their lives: the sudden closing of their Microsoft Word software–without prompting to save their data–no more Read more…
Tags: fake alert, fake-av, Ransomware, rogue antivirus
In recent years one of the most prevalent malware threats for PCs (and lately Mac users) is fake-antivirus software, which pretends to be a legitimate security program. Its real purpose is to charge victims a fee to remove a nonexistent threat. The same threat has now been ported to mobile devices. In some cases we Read more…
Tags: Android, fake anti-virus software, fake-av, Google Play, Mobile, pup
McAfee Labs is pleased to announce the availability of our “Fake Alert” Stinger – an improved Stinger tool with aggressive generic content targeted at enhanced detection and remediation of fake alert based threats. In our efforts to provide the best of protection for our customers against rogue security products or fake alert type malware – Read more…
Tags: Cybercrime, Data Protection, Endpoint Protection, fake alert, fake-av, Family Safety, identity protection, identity theft, malware
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