Archive for December 11th, 2009

Hello again. This is Jerry Bryant letting you know that the questions and answers from the December 2009 security bulletin webcast have now been posted here. There is one question that I wanted to provide a little more information on and that references reports of KB973917 causing problems with Internet Information Services (IIS)... »

Internet Security 2010 is a phony security program, designed to look and act like legitimate security software.Screen shot of the Internet Security 2010 GUI after it infects a PC.The actual website pushing this phony software is McAfee Secure, or claim... »

IGuardPC is the latest rogue antivirus software released by cyber criminals. Rogue antivirus software is designed to rip people off, usually with scare tactics that trick people with false warnings and alerts into buying the software.IGuardPC uses fal... »

Case in point: findproper.orgThese are the types of sites that are used to download from third party affiliate sites. If the setup.exe had run, it would have installed the AntiMalware rogue.VIPRE catches and blocks the Trojan installer.See Sunbelt Rogu... »

Yeah, he has a point. It killed the dinosaurs and it's killing us. As if that wasn't bad enough, our software is going the same way. Try as we might, the constant drive for things to get bigger seems irresistible. Bloatware rules. In an age in which ev... »

The third generation of WiniGuard gets a new clone every 48 hoursA new rogue security product called IGuardPC, that we added to detections today, is the 50th clone of the WiniGuard family of rogue security products. That makes WiniGuard the largest rog... »

There are some “interesting” similarities between the home page of the DefenceLab rogue and the web pages of some legitimate anti-virus companies.Our good friends at McAfee alerted us to some of this then Patrick Jordan and Alex Eckelberry took a c... »