Sunbelt have finished review process. They concludes that the Mirar Toolbar product does, in fact, satisfy Sunbelt’s objective criteria for a Potentially Unwanted Installation. Currently Sunbelt classifies the Mirar toolbar as a “moderate risk” “adware toolbar.” Mirar toolbar is marked by a number of problems including: poor installation practices resulting in inadequate notice and disclosure
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 –
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
