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Found new rogue antispyware apps – SpyMarshal, AntiVermins (AntiVerminser)

Myantispyware team February 2, 2007 1 Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

Bleepingcomputer team found new rogue antispyware apps: SpyMarshal, AntiVermins (AntiVerminser). AntiVermins (AntiVerminser) AntiVermins, like all rogue antispyware apps, uses misleading advertising, false positives, and fake scan reports as a scare tactic for you to purchase the commercial version of their application. Symptoms in a HijackThis Log: O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [AntiVermins] C:\Program Files\AntiVermins\AntiVermins.exe /h O4 –

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Found new fake codecs – SilverCodec and BrainCodec

Myantispyware team December 1, 2006 No Comment Adware, Malware

Sunbelt blog and Bleepingcomputer reported about two new fake codecs: SilverCodec and BrainCodec This is so new in fact, that though the BrainCodec has its own domain and its own braincodec.107.exe, they forgot to change the web site itself. As you can see the web site is still showing the layout and image for Gold

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More fake codec sites

Myantispyware team November 21, 2006 No Comment Adware, Malware

As always, DO NOT download these fake codecs. They do not improve video or audio, and installing them under the premise of “free video” or any other reason is a very bad idea. MovieCodec TV Codec WatchFree SuperCodec Perfect Codec Related articles: How to remove malicious codecs.

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Putin’s death can kill your computer

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Trojan

Viruslist reported about new spam message. Subject: ATTENTION !!! President of Russia has dead.Attention!!! Vladimir Putin has dead. Visit immediately to http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/8/hi/russia/********.stmBBC, BBC World and their respective logos are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Logos © 1996 The link in this ‘sensational’ message appears to lead to the BBC site – an organization

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More fake codec sites or story continue…

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Adware

The story continue… some days ago Sunbeltblog reported about fresh fake codec sites. Codec is actually a trojan download installer, It will change your home page to one of the current security scam site used like iupdate.com. It produces unwanted popup to sell rough security software or open to porn content type pages like adultfriendfinders[dot]com.

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SpamThru Trojan – malware who detects and removes another malware

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Malware, Trojan

Like many viruses and trojans, SpamThru attempts to prevent installed anti-virus software from downloading updates by adding entries into the %sysdir%\drivers\etc\hosts file pointing the AV update sites to the localhost address. In the past, we’ve also seen malware which tries to uproot other competing malware on an infected system by killing its processes, removing its

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Found new rogue antispyware – PestCapture / how to remove

Myantispyware team October 11, 2006 No Comment Malware removal, Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo

Sunbelt blog reported about new rogue antispyware PestCapture. PestCapture uses dlls that are the same as that of another rogue antispyware – Spysheriff For protect your PC, add these sites into your blocklist: pesttrap(dot)com pesttrap(dot)com Innovagest2000(dot)com 1stantivirus(dot)com Anti-virus-pro(dot)com Spycontra(dot)com Spydeface(dot)com Virushammer(dot)com For remove PestCapture from your computer, make follow steps: Download CCleaner. Double click on

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MSN Worm Used to install Backdoor | How to remove

Myantispyware team October 1, 2006 No Comment Adware, Worms

F Secure have received reports from customers of suspicious pop-ups that were being spammed through MSN Messenger. Below is a sample message: lol check 🙂 http://peopleonline.pe.funpic.de/[REMOVED].pif When the link in the message is clicked, it automatically downloads a file named photo942.PIF. This file is the backdoor component of Licat.C This is used to connect to

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More fake codec sites

Myantispyware team September 20, 2006 No Comment Adware

Sunbeltblog reported (1, 2) about two fresh fake codes sites. Strcodec MP Video Codec Add both sites in to your blocklist. Use follow info: 69.50.160.58 Mpcodec.com 85.255.118.194 strcodec.com Related articles: How to remove malicious codecs.

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Worm uses MS04-007, MS05-017, MS05-039, MS06-040 bugs

Myantispyware team August 31, 2006 No Comment Worms

For the past several days, ISC have received all kinds of emails about the recent increase in scanning on port 139. One of loyal readers out there on the ‘Information SuperHighway’, Alex Pettinger, wrote and and gave us some netstat and fport outputs from one of his machines that seemed to be affected by the

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