Posts Tagged ‘fake software’

Follow up on the top blacklisted sites

May

2012

Earlier this week, I researched the top websites blacklisted by Google. I’ve looked at more of these websites over the last three days to better understand the most common attacks. The findings are quite disappointing. First, most infected websites are not cleaned up after three days. Webmasters should see a huge drop in their traffic, […]

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Fake AV business alive and kicking

Oct

2011

Since June 2011 we have seen a substantial decrease in the number of fake antivirus programs. Right now we are observing 10 000 daily attempts to infect users with Trojan-FakeAV; back in June the figures were 50-60,000. The daily number of attempted infections using Trojan-FakeAV in the past 5 months Nevertheless, new versions of this […]

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Fake software store imitate Groupon

Sep

2011

Fake software stores often claim to offer huge discounts, not unlike the well-known site Groupon. So it should not be a surprise that some of these fake stores look exactly like Groupon in an effort to be more familiar to the users and increase the likelihood of being trusted. One of these fake stores is axisoftware.com. Here […]

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