Today, I’m really excited to see the news that the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI announced they have taken action against two international cybercrime rings that have been spreading fake-alert malware. This operation hopefully will have a big impact on cybercrime rings and will discourage them from selling fake-alert products. I hope this will neutralize the fake-alert threat someday. 

For the time being, however, we need to protect ourselves from getting infected by fake-alert malware. McAfee Labs has prepared advisories for combating fake-alert families. One recent prevalent family is SystemDefender.

• Threat Advisory: Combating FakeAlerts
• Threat Advisory: FakeAlert System Defender

 
These advisories show how fake-alert malware deceives users and provides mitigation steps to avoid an infection. Please have a read and protect yourselves from such fraud!