This past weekend, various postgraduate students in France ended their academic year by making final modifications in their theses. On Sunday, I assisted some of them. While browsing the Internet f
Category: fake AV
In recent years one of the most prevalent malware threats for PCs (and lately Mac users) is fake-antivirus software, which pretends to be a legitimate security program. Its real purpose is to charg
At the Virus Bulletin 2011 conference in Barcelona, Spain, Sophos’s Onur Komili presented research into identifying distribution networks used to spread fake anti-virus software.
More old wine in a new bottle: Spammers have used the same payload that we saw in an earlier UPS scam to target more victims. Looks like the spammers ran out of new binaries. Last weekend McAfee ob