Free AntiVirus and Malware Software solutions.
Free AntiVirus and Malware Software solutions. Finding quality free antivirus and malware protection for your Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 systems can be a mine field. Plenty of scareware is available from corporate vendors selling high priced, low quality solutions. Not only this there has also been a rapid influx of anti-malware software that is actually malware. Yes you read that correctly a recent trend is to use scare ads that sell you dangerous software that is supposed to protect you!
Here are some articles that outline these recent trends:
New York Times pwned to serve scareware
The New York Times was co-opted into pushing fake anti-virus malvertisements after hackers broke into its banner ad feed over the weekend.
Surfers visiting the site were confronted by malicious pop-up window that falsely warned that their systems were infected. The ruse was designed to scare people into buying a clean-up utility of little or no value.
Scareware scammers hijack Twitter trending topics
Researchers from F-Secure and Sophos are reporting on an ongoing scareware serving campaign abusing the popular micro-blogging service Twitter.
Hundreds of tweets using four different URL shortening services are currently spammed through the automatically registered Twitter accounts, relying on a pseudo-random text generation using Twitter’s trending topics.
This isn’t the first time (Cybercriminals hijack Twitter trending topics to serve malware) scareware scammers abuse Twitter, and definitely not the last. However, how are the scammers capable of achieving this automation (Commercial Twitter spamming tool hits the market), with Twitter now relying on reCAPTCHA for account registration purposes, a practice which is supposed to limit the automatic abuse of the service?
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Last Update: 17 September 2009
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