Thursday, October 16, 2008

Alert - Fake Windows Security Center

Another scareware run is using an amazing misleading technique: A fake Windows Security Center.

Check out the pics in this CA Security Advisor Research Blog. This will not install itself unless you run. The fake security center is alike to the actual one except for the signature bad grammar.

The program goes as far as to block off outbound Internet connections in its attempts to get the user to download the "full" copy of WinDefender 2008. This Trojan is also quite hard to uninstall, partially because you can't download a lawful program to remove it. The nagging is so distinctive of scareware and so dissimilar to Windows that it may blow the scam, at least for somewhat knowledgeable users.

With this, as with most malware. once you run it you've fundamentally lost the fight. Don't run executables you don't know are secure.

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