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‘System Progressive Protection’ Another Form of Fake AV

Sep

2012

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 […]

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New Trojan spy steals short messages on Android devices

Jun

2012

Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web is warning users about a new version of the Android.SpyEye program that intercepts incoming short messages received by mobile devices. This Trojan is disguised as Android Security Suite Premium, allegedly protecting smartphones from malicious software. The new version of the Trojan also has a shield icon and is added to […]

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“Fix your hard disk” with fake S.M.A.R.T. Repair tool

May

2012

Imagine a program that scans your computer, detects some errors, and offers to fix them. There are many legitimate programs that do this (for example, antivirus programs), but there are also many fake programs, which do nothing beneficial – they just pretend to do a scan of your computer, they pretend to fix some errors, […]

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‘System Progressive Protection’ Another Form of Fake AV

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