Searching For Celebrities Leads To Security Risks (WebProNews)
Actor Brad Pitt has surpassed Paris Hilton to become the most dangerous celebrity to search for on the Web according to Internet security company McAfee. Users searching for “Brad Pitt,” “Brad Pitt downloads,” and Brad Pitt wallpaper, screen savers and pictures have an 18 percent chance of having their PCs infected with online threats, such [...]
New SUPERAntiSpyware Protects Home, Business Users (Enterprise Security Today)
EUGENE, Ore., Sep 16, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — SUPERAntiSpyware.com, a Pacific Northwest developer of state-of-the-art anti-spyware solutions, has released a major upgrade to its SUPERAntiSpyware Free Edition and SUPERAntiSpyware Professional products. SUPERAntiSpyware, in use by over 10 million users worldwide, is an innovative product that protects users from Spyware, Malware, Adware, … original article
Rogue mistakes!
As we have mentioned recently, the distribution of rogue antimalware programs has increased considerably and they have become a very widespread threat, even reaching Trojans, which have been leading the most active type of malware during these last years. For example, today, more that 75% of the adware-type malware detected by our technicians have been [...]
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
During the last months I’ve been asked the same question almost every day: why are there so many rogueware infections? We have already published some data in the blog, as well as in the 2008 Q3 Report. The number of infections are somehow relevant:As you can see, Adware is the top one, and this is [...]
Microsoft Security Center recommends you…
… this is part of a fake message used by a new rogue antivirus in a screensaver where users are warned that their system is infected and they need to update it with a fake Antivirus. PandaLabs has detected it as Adware/RogueAntivirus2010.Besides, some weeks ago PandaLabs detected a previous version of this program called Adware/RogueAntivirus2009.Taking [...]