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Fake free AVG download sites

20
Oct
2011

Fake antivirus sites are a very common way to trick people into installing malware on their computers. Another technique is to repackage popular software with adware or malware, and offer them for download. AVG is a popular Antivirus vendor that offers a free version of it’s product at http://free.avg.com/. Rather than getting money by bundling […]

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Fake anti-viruses for MAC, new 64-bit rootkits, and other “surprises” of May

09
Jun
2011

The emergence of the fake anti-virus best known as MacDefender may be considered the most important cyber-threat event in May. While fake anti-viruses for Windows have become commonplace, counterfeit anti-malware for Mac OS X is still a novelty, especially when on the scale of an epidemic. Yet the discovery of rootkits targeting 64-bit Windows systems […]

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