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Update on Security Advisory 2269637

By MSRCTEAM

Hi everyone, Since we released Security Advisory 2269637 on August 23, we've continued to conduct an investigation not only into our own affected products, but also into how we can best help to protect customers given DLL preloading also affects some third-party applications. We'd like to provide an update on our investigation. First, I want to... »

AV Defender 2011

By Tom Kelchner

AV Defender 2011 is a rogue security product that pretends to find malicious code on a victim’s machine in order to frighten him or her into purchasing this useless application. It presents an alarming graphic user interface:(Click on graphic to enla... »

Advanced Security Tool 2010

By Tom Kelchner

Advanced Security Tool 2010 is a rogue security product that downloads itself and pretends to find malicious code on a victim’s machine in order to frighten him or her into purchasing this useless application. These malicious applications typically ... »

AntiSpy Safeguard

By Tom Kelchner

AntiSpy Safeguard is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code.(click to enlarge graphic)It re... »

AntiSpy Safeguard

By Tom Kelchner

AntiSpy Safeguard is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code.(click to enlarge graphic)It re... »

Major Defense Kit

By Tom Kelchner

Major Defense Kit is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code.(click to enlarge graphic)It re... »

Pest Detector 4.1

By Tom Kelchner

Pest Detector 4.1 is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code.(click to enlarge graphic)It re... »

Peak Protection 2010

By Tom Kelchner

Peak Protection 2010 is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code. It requires you to pay for ... »

Red Cross Antivirus

By Tom Kelchner

Red Cross Antivirus is in the FakeRean family of rogue security products. VIPRE detects it as Trojan.Win32.Generic.pak!cobra. Like all rogues, it does a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found malicious code. It requires you to pay for t... »

Antivir Solution Pro

By Tom Kelchner

Antivir Solution Pro is the latest clone of the FakeSpyPro family of rogue security products. Like all rogues, it pretends to scan your machine, allegedly finds malware threats then tries to get you to purchase the software. This is all fiction and Ant... »

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