FakeAV is never really far when you want to find it. Browsing a couple of dubious links was enough to trigger a ‘you are infected’ page. This one is pretending to be from Microsoft Security Essentials: The file that gets downloaded weighs a heavy (as far as malware goes) 4.58 Mb and comes from:03.85da0f71.com VirusTotal […]
The current wave of Mac OS X FakeAV infection follows a three-step process. To those familiar with Windows-based FakeAV, the pattern in this infection chain is quite familiar. Displays a “scanning page” from poisoned Google searches Prompts a download of a .ZIP which contains a .PKG installer. This installer installs a downloader. The downloader downloads […]
Last night the malware authors behind the Mac Guard fake anti-virus changed their methods to bypass the updates Apple released yesterday afternoon to protect OS X Snow Leopard users. Apple fired back shortly after 2 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time today with an update to XProtect. Computers that have Apple update 2011-003 for Snow Leopard now […]
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