Fake Anti-Spyware & Anti-Virus Programs

In the past you have almost only protect your computer from viruses and worms. Could just as easy ... there are now many more enemies that lurk on your computer to disrupt and damage. The most worrying is that anti-virus and anti-spyware programs also could be falsified. This rogue scareware true or are becoming a pest.

Fake Anti-Virus and Anti Spyware Programs
It is sometimes known by everyone that there is suddenly a pop-up advertising will appear. This is usually not so bad and can be a pop-up blocker to be resolved. But if more sites can be visited or your virus scanner does not and your computer indicating that Windows has found spyware is something wrong.

The message you get is usually whether you want to remove spyware now. Of course you want this (so you can surf through good) and you press' Ok '. Fantastic: a good program (for example, 2010 or XP Antivirus Micro Antivirus 2009) download and install it. The titles of these programs give a reliable impression, but appearances are deceiving here.

Removing spyware and viruses represents scam
The programs work well and just after they've run, you see indeed that many adware, malware and spyware are found. With the click of a button "delete" opens a new web page which asks you to pay to remove the spyware. Do absolutely not! This is almost certainly a fake anti-spyware program and payment is the spyware is not removed. Perhaps so, since they the customer in a subsequent scan again able to pay.

A typical example of fraud in practice this is so. There are probably tens of millions of computers infected by such rogue true or scareware. There are always people who believe in this report, which highlight this practice is so lucrative, more and more programs on the market with the most innocent names. That the following list before.

List of fake anti-Virus and Spyware programs:

* Advanced Anti-Virus
* Many false
* Many false
* Advanced Privacy Guard
* Advanced Privacy Suite
* Andromeda AntiVirus
* AntiMalware 2009
* Did Antimalware
* AntiMalware Suite
* AntiSpyControl
* AntiSpyware Pro XP
* Antispyware XP 2008
* Antivir64
* Antivirus 2010
* Antivirus Lab 2009
* Antivirus Protection
* AntivirusDoc
* Cleaner2009
* Content Eraser
* EAntivirusPro
* Internet Antivirus
* Micro Antivirus 2009
* MS Antivirus (2008)
* PC Virus Less
* PersonalAntiSpy
* Power Antivirus 2009

Bay Underground Malware on the Internet

Malware, called all kinds of malware or causing troubles such as advertising software (adware), spyware (Trojan, spyware), type the code risk control and help control the computer remotely to the bad (the computer was brought into the system Zombie, botnet), type the code helps fraud (phishing) ... is becoming big danger. The Internet has more than half a million websites are showing Malware infection who surf the web.

One of the new weapon helps Malware is a rapidly developing social networks (social networks) such as MySpace to help Internet users can easily create websites for individuals as their blog. Social networking is a new concept appeared recently for the website only provided for the user environment to create personal blogs and connect with each other according to preference. Own social network protection is sure to create the blog can not be brought to Malware blog.

However, creating blogs can take on their path (link) to other sites with attractive introduction to deceive viewers. Just click this link to see the trap can order as it is the site contained Malware or provide free software with very useful but the shell peeled harmful Trojan is extremely dangerous .

According to the statistics of companies writing anti-spyware software Webroot, many sites on the personal social network like MySpace by creating a user with more information to different virtual trap John's web surfing. "Each like to see people under click always attractive, such as software, film and free hot cause you can not deny downloading your computer. Of course, gift with their product is free Trojan, spyware that the price people pay to surf the web for volatility is not your cheap little time.

Until this time, the specialists have Webroot's statistics list of sites containing 527,000 John Malware trap users, more than 100,000 pages over the same period last year. With the number of sites Malware much like the numbers the computer, as in most households, infected with one or more spyware in more than 30 spyware most popular today. Spyware is also quite common in business. Webroot has surveyed nearly 20,000 businesses in 71 countries and found a computer in the company also infected 19 different types of spyware.

Technical writing spyware is continuous improvement with the ability to automatically hide to avoid anti-spyware software to detect and destroy as well as record type keyboard (keylogger). Most recently, a Trojan called Zlob the use of dummy as software code resolution video update for the Microsoft. However, the link to download the program again this leads to a site that the hacker, a series of Malware is downloaded and installed to the computer's victims

Are all Antivirus softwares safe?

According to a report from Microsoft, fake security software is growing on the Net. The number of vulnerabilities it is down from 2007, except for its own applications. Each semester, Microsoft, like other publishers, publishes its report on information security. It must be said that the U.S. firm has an advantage in weight to take the temperature of Risk: the collection of information is based on 450 million computers worldwide.

First observation fake security software have proliferated on the Internet. These applications exploit the fear of the Internet, usually by displaying messages alerting an infection. Once the antivirus installed, it will attempt to extort money from the user. These fake security tools can also steal personal data and information as well.

Win32/Renos virus totaled 4.4 million infections in the recently past time. Microsoft has detected malware and family Win32/Spyware Secure 260 000 computers between July and December 2008. This represents an increase of 87.4% in six months. Win32/Renos, another one of these programs gave rise to 4.4 million infections worldwide over the period (+ 66.6%). The sources of threats largest number of infections in the second half are the various Trojans. Trojans (various, downloaders and injectors) account for more than 50% of infections.

The situations vary significantly between different countries of world. In Brazil, the threat most common (greater than 50%) consists of programs sniffer passwords and monitoring tools. In Korea, the worms that cause the most infections (28%). The Trojans (all categories) remain the most serious threat. Another finding of the report Microsoft application vulnerabilities continue to pose a major risk to security, even though the numbers tend to decrease. Between 2007 and 2008, the total number of vulnerabilities of high index (52% of all faults) fell by 16% compared to 2007.

This downward trend in the number of vulnerabilities appears forget Microsoft applications. Between the first and second half of 2008, the publisher notes an increase of 67.2% of faults for its products (42 security bulletins about vulnerabilities 97). From 2007 to 2008 it rose by 16.8% with a total of 78 security bulletins encompassing 155 vulnerabilities. On the Operating System, Microsoft said in its report noted a rate of infection correlated with the length of the OS. Plus an operating system is old and the more successful attacks increases. The infection rate for Windows Vista is much lower than its predecessor, Windows XP, regardless of the configuration; specifies the document. The rate of infection of Windows Vista SP1 is for example 60.6% lower than Windows XP SP3. A fact that Microsoft checks on both client OS on servers.