software microsoft | DataProtectionCenter.com

‘System Progressive Protection’ Another Form of Fake AV

28

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 […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

Microsoft Windows Registry loaded with malware

18

Sep

2012

Nowadays it’s very common for threats to use rootkit techniques to hide malicious files on computer hard drive, but it’s not so common to hide actual payload in the Windows Registry and use malicious file as only a loader. The following sample has evolved a bit since we first saw this kind of thing but […]

Category General Written by AVG Blogs 0 Comments

‘Win 8 Security System’ Another Fake-Antivirus Malware

01

Sep

2012

We discovered another fake antivirus/antimalware tool late in August. The “Windows 8 Security system” claims to detect infections, and displays alerts to scare users into purchasing protection. The real infection, of course, is the Win 8 Security System itself. It’s no surprise that developers of rogue antivirus software are playing up the connection to Windows […]

Category General Written by Blog Central > McAfee Labs 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘software microsoft’

‘System Progressive Protection’ Another Form of Fake AV

Microsoft Windows Registry loaded with malware

‘Win 8 Security System’ Another Fake-Antivirus Malware

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us