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Gift card mania: Fake Starbucks gift cards spreading on Facebook can lead to malware – More and more scamsters misuse popular brands to lure users to visit their websites

23

Feb

2012

The fake campaign is spreading via Facebook walls around the globe. The texts used in the announcements are English, which increases the chance that a large number of Facebook users accept the “bait message”. Starbucks has been used in a similar campaign already last year and they warned their customers not to believe such a […]

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The good and the bad about AV multi scanner services

03

Feb

2012

It is common for malware samples to remain undetectable for hours or even days. G Data has got comprehensive and fast detection rates for malware through our cloud technology. But still, some users might want to know more about a particular suspicious file or even analyze it themselves.One of the easiest ways to accumulate a […]

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FakeAV online scanner scam still in the wild – Let’s have a look at the possible evolution of some famous FakeAV scanner scams

07

Dec

2011

The FakeAV business faced a decrease in the last few months. Due to federal law enforcement activities against the FakeAV industry and some major search engine optimizations to prevent blackhat seo poisoning, less infections of FakeAV programs were reported in the last five months. Despite those measures, FakeAV is still a serious threat to everyone […]

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