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POPSFacebook Worm Spreads Zeus Trojan via Spam Links Containing a Malware-Tainted Photo File The Denmark-based security group CSIS recently discovered a new computer worm propagating its way across the social networking giant Facebook. This particular worm spotted circulating on Facebook has been identified as a nasty, high-risk security threat that seems to be, mainly, utilized for the criminal purposes of distributing nasty, malware-laced creations onto as many unlucky computer systems as it can get its malicious hooks into.
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POPSRogue Internet Explorer/Firefox Plugin Uses Trojan.Tracur.C & Trojan.JS.Redirector.KY to Infect PC U Malware infections that latch on to a particular Internet browser are certainly nothing new in the world of computer security. However, a recent malware infection not only latches on to one Internet browser, it also installs malware that latches onto your other favorite application for browsing the Internet. Specifically, a browser helper object that has been dubbed Trojan.Tracur.C by several security programs and acts as a fake plug-in for Internet Explorer. After installing, it then installs a malicious Firefox add-on, Trojan.JS.Redirector.KY, which has spyware components as well as browser hijacking capabilities.
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POPSIs Your Boyfriend Using Your Computer to Watch Online Porn And Exposing You to Malware? Did you know that about 12% of all websites on the Internet are porn sites? The creators of malware, usually clever hackers, and money hungry cybercrooks, are apt to target as many people as they can – mostly men – and what better way to do it than through porn sites? Pornographic content sites make up over a $13 billion a year industry, larger than the music and movie entertainment industries put together.
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POPSRustock Botnet Responsible for More Than 40 Percent of the World’s Spam Spam email messages are one of the main contributors to spreading malware over the Internet. According to Symantec’s calculations, the Rustock botnet has now been found to be responsible for up to 40% of all of the world’s spam. The network of computers infected with Rustock are controlled by botnet controllers that collectively send about 46 billion spam emails each day.
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POPSThousands of Online Banking Customers Robbed by Zeus Trojan Virus The days of physically holding up and robbing a bank have been virtually replaced by new sophisticated techniques carried out online usually through the use of a computer virus such as the Zeus Trojan. Just recently, this very thing happened when cybercriminals used the malicious Zeus Trojan computer program to break into the accounts of thousands of British internet banking users and transfer funds without their knowledge.
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POPSHow Today’s Malware is Different From Yesterday’s Fifteen years ago, creating malware or a virus was more-or-less a hobby. At that time, malware was hardly ever created with the intent to make money. It was more of a prank or a way of proving that you knew your way around a computer better than everyone else. Professional cybercrooks make it a full-time business to create malicious programs today. Many of these programs are known as rogue security applications or rogue anti-spyware/rogue anti-virus programs. Just in the past few years, cybercriminals have figured out that these fake programs are more successful at tricking victims when they have an common or well-known appearance. Case in point, these fake programs, such as Antivir Solution Pro and Antimalware Doctor, pretend to come from a trusted source or known security vendor.
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POPSTop 5 Tips to Avoid Online Identity Theft Traps In this day and age people are conscious about protecting their personal information now more so than ever, especially since social networks, such as Facebook, are the most popular market to target among hackers.
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POPSYou Should Know the Real Facts About 'Digital Protection' Digital Protection is a rogue anti-spyware tool which swipes money from unlucky computer users. Digital Protection conducts a fraudulent system scan which makes false results to terrify users to buy ineffective software. The user will be attacked by popup warnings forcing the buy of Digital Protection to remove the supposed infections. Do not fall for this scam and erase Digital Protection by using legal anti-spyware software.
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POPSFree iPad or $1000 IKEA Gift Card Scams Hit Facebook and Twitter Have you ever seen those ads on Facebook that offer a free $1,000 IKEA gift card or tweets on Twitter that says you can get the Apple iPad for free? These are all fake offers. They exist to collect your personal information and possibly flood you with spam messages at a later date.
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POPSHas 'Your Protection' Occured On Your PC? Your Protection is a fraudulent anti-spyware program that is originated by the cyber crooks that generated the rogues known as Dr. Guard and User Protection. Your Protection is not an application program that PC users ever wish to use for the discovery and elimination of spyware because it not capable to do that. When installed, Your Protection is known to exhibit false earning alerts that say similar to the following specified below: “Antivirus Alert – Critical threat detected Warning: Network attack detected Network attack has been detected. Process is attempting to access your private data.” Your Protection must be found and eliminated by a spyware removal application program to reduce injury that can be produced by attempting to remove it manually.
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POPSResident Shield: New virus detected warning popup message informaiton “Resident Shield: New virus detected” is a fake security alert displayed on computers infected with Antivirus 7. Once a victim clicks on the link provided on the “Resident Shield: New virus detected” security alert, he/she will be redirected to a malicious website advertising the Antivirus 7 rogueware.
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POPSAntivirus 7 Malware Removal Report Antivirus 7 is a rogue anti-virus application from the same family as Antivir. Antivirus 7 is able to enter a system with the help of Trojans that take advantage of backdoors or existing vulnerabilities in a computer system. On infiltrating a system, Antivirus 7 will generate a number of fake system security alerts as well as conduct a bogus system scan which will claim that the machine is infected with numerous malware.
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POPSDon't Give Your Money For 'XP Smart Security 2010'
XP Smart Security 2010 is a counterfeit anti-spyware software program. XP Smart Security 2010 may coincide with an authentic security software program but it is known to destroy computer system when installed. After XP Smart Security 2010 is set up through installation from an evil source, it can settle system directives with noxious files and produce possible corruptions to the system registry. XP Smart Security 2010 can load at startup producing deceptive popup notices to show up while setting up system scans with the user’s approval. XP Smart Security 2010 may also render a number of spurious malware infection scan results which are used to terrify innocent computer users to get money with the intention that they will buy a full version of XP Smart Security 2010. XPSmart Security2010 can make a user suppose that their system is strongly influenced with malware infections but XP Smart Security 2010 does not give any genuine source of eradication functionality. Users are encouraged to
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POPSNew Harmful Anti-Spyware Tool 'XP Defender Pro' Is Going Wild XP Defender Pro is an illicit anti-spyware software program used by hackers to deceive unaware computer users for spending their money. The trial version of XP Defender Pro is covertly set into users’ computers by hidden Trojans. When on a computer system, XP Defender Pro uses fictitious system scans, security warning alerts and pop-ups for scaring users to trust that their systems are poisoned with sinister malware infections. Then the user will be suggested for buying the “full version’ of XP Defender Pro for killing all the discovered Trojans, viruses, worms etc. Users are strongly advised not waste their money on this worthless software tool and use a valid malware removal program to through XP Defender Pro away from your computer system.
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POPSBusinesses Continue to Struggle With Social Network Security Has your boss ever come up to you and asked you to discontinue the use of Facebook or Twitter? Did you ever think that his reasoning behind that was not just to get you back to work but to protect the business network from being attacked by an unwanted parasite or hacker? Businesses are attempting to figure out if social networking really is a bad thing for them in regards to security and productivity.
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POPSWhy PC Users Should Know the Truth About the 'Antivirus Live 2010' Antivirus Live 2010 is a deceiving security tool produced by attackers to fool innocent computer users to spend their hard earned money by purchasing it. Antivirus Live 2010 can be downloaded from infected websites; still it is mainly installed onto innocent user’s PC by secret Trojans. When inside a PC, Antivirus Live 2010 will initiate a fictitious online system scan which will say that the system is infiltrated with mischievous computer malware. Antivirus Live 2010 will also create alarming security warning alerts and pop-ups that highly recommend the target user to buy its “full” version in order to eliminate all the supposedly found computer parasites. Antivirus Live 2010 cannot find or erase computer malware. Therefore, do not be convinced by any security reports illustrated by it and have it erased from your PC immediately.
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POPS'Antimalware Doctor': The Real PC Doctor Or Pretender? Antimalware Doctor is a rogue anti-spyware software program that presses target computer users into buying its falsified “full” version. When put into a computer system by secret Trojans, Antimalware Doctor would perform a bogus online system scan as well as create fraudulent security warnings and pop-up alert messages. Antimalware Doctor would then convince a target computer user to buy its “full” version for removing all the purportedly found malware infections. The “full” version of Antimalware Doctor, also known as AntimalwareDoctor, does not exist as it is not a legal computer software application.
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POPS'Antivirus Protection Center' Offers Its Alleged Legal Version Antivirus Protection Center is a counterfeit anti-spyware security tool that was produced with the goal to fool computer users out of their money. When installed, Antivirus Protection Center uses fictitious warnings notifications and phony system scan results to convince users to buy a full version of Antivirus Protection Center. Antivirus Protection Center uses this ploy to make users believe that they need a supposedly licensed version of Antivirus Protection Center for removal of discovered infections. Antivirus Protection Center is not a response to any type of security needs nor should it ever be used to find and eliminate computer malware.
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POPSCan You Rely On the 'PC Defender'? PC Defender is a fictitious anti-spyware security tool that uses some deceptive techniques to persuade victims for buying a full version of the PC Defender software application. PCDefender has been known to exhibit some fabricated malware warning alerts in the form of an irritating popup warning alert. Additionally, PC Defender will accomplish system scans that give some unreal infection results. PC Defender is not capable to identify or erase genuine infections. It is advised that users reject use of PC Defender as it can result in destruction of system registry entries.
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POPSMeet the Dangerous 'Paladin Antivirus' Paladin Antivirus is a rogue anti-virus application produced by the same creators of the rogueware Malware Defense. Paladin Antivirus spreads through Trojans that can infiltrate a computer without a user’s awareness or agreement. When inside a PC, Paladin Antivirus will start up a fictitious system scan and say to find a number computer threats that can only be killed with its “full” version. Paladin Antivirus often creates a registry entry that will assure that it is loaded with every system start-up. Paladin Antivirus will also settle a list of genuine security programs and point the user to uninstall them. These security programs are: F-Secure, Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware, Avira AntiVir, NOD32, avast! and more. All scan notices or security warning alerts illustrated by PaladinAntivirus should be avoided.
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POPSEverything That Relates To the 'Personal Anti Malware' Is a Lie Personal Anti Malware is a rogue computer security tool designed by tricky cyber-crooks. Personal Anti Malware spreads through stealthy Trojans that can invade systems without the awareness of the users. When inside a system, Personal Anti Malware will initiate a bogus system scan that will find not dangerous files and dangerous infections that can only be eliminated with the buy of its “full version”. Personal Anti Malware will also show numerous falsified security warnings and irritating pop-ups. Personal Anti Malware is not legal security software. Therefore, it is cannot find or eliminate any type of computer threat. Users are warned not to fall for this scam and not to waste their money on Personal Anti Malware.
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POPSDon't Be Tricked By the 'XP Micro Antivirus' XP Micro Antivirus is a bogus anti-virus software program that reports malware and creates fictitious security warnings to deceive users into buying it. XP Micro Antivirus is able to invade victim’s systems with the help of a stealthy Trojans. When inside a computer system, XP Micro Antivirus will show false scans and system security alerts in order to persuade a targeted user that his/her system has been infiltrated by threats that can only be eliminated with the allegedly licensed version of XP Micro Antivirus. XP Micro Antivirus will also create a registry entry to assure that it is executed each time the system is launched. Buying XP Micro Antivirus is not a reliable choice; it is not a legal security program that should be eliminated upon identification.
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POPSWill 'My Security Wall' Set the Wall For Security Of Your PC? My Security Wall is a rogue security program that arrives from the same family as Virus Doctor. The trial version of My Security Wall is sponsored by the help of Trojans and fictitious online system scanners. When on a computer system My Security Wall will create a registry entry that will guarantee that it is executed with each system start-up. Then My Security Wall will accomplish a fabricated system scan and identify many not dangerous files as dangerous parasites. My Security Wall will also set up some security warning alerts and irritating pop-ups for cheating a victim to trust the system is affected and the only solution is to buy the “full” version of My Security Wall. My Security Wall can also change the Hosts file, thus diverting victims to infected websites. My Security Wall is not a genuine security program that should never be obtained.
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