#AVG ANTIVIRUS 2011 FREE EDITION SOFTWARE#
Highlights MMPC that fake anti-malware suppliers in their series of measures to defraud people are choosing the logo and name of authentic products to imitate the genuine security software vendors' actions and characteristics. Worryingly, cyber-criminals have reaped millions of dollars from the rogue anti-virus business over the past 10 years through hostile promotion methods such as pop-up advertisements on the Web and search engine optimization (SEO) for so deceiving unsuspecting Web-surfers that they voluntarily downloaded the criminals' scareware. Says MMPC, the new scareware compromises the browsing session of the Web-surfer in order that he can be made to believe that infection has set on his system as well as stop him from downloading genuine malware removal software. Moreover, similar to other scareware products, instances have been found wherein FakeXPA plants its own malicious program, the Alureon Trojan.
Like always, this rogueware too inundates victims' PCs with innumerable pop-ups and dialog boxes with varied purposes, including creating panic, socially engineering for fraud, or simply causing destruction such that the user agrees to buy the roguware hoping to have the problems resolved. Observes MMPC that creators of FakeXPA thinking that users can be easily duped with its name, which they are calling as a well-known anti-virus firm AVG's product, have reportedly applied AVG's logo to the user-interface of their bogus product. In addition, fake AV firms have also introduced services like localization, online customer support (with real humans!) and even AV-Test like product benchmarking to serve their “customers” and increase profits.‘FakeXPA’ Now Claims Itself as ‘AVG Antivirus 2011,’ Reports MMPCĪccording to a security warning by MMPC (Microsoft's malware Protection Center), Rogue:Win32/Fake XPA, which for the past many months had been circulating in the name of "Antivirus 8," is now calling itself "AVG Antivirus 2011." reported this on January 31, 2011.
Optimization and web-based pop-up ads to trick unwitting Web surfersĬoopting a legitimate product’s name and logo are just the latest in a series of steps by rogue anti malware vendors to mirror the features and actions of legitimate anti virus software makers. Last decade using aggressive promotion techniques like search engine AVG Antivirus 2011 is one of many names used by the malware, with small variations in branding and user interface distinguishing each.Īnti virus has blossomed into a multi million dollar business in the
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#AVG ANTIVIRUS 2011 FREE EDITION INSTALL#
Like other scareware, FakeXPA is known, in cases, to install its own malware – variants of the Alureon Trojan horse program. Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center issued a warning for the phony AVG program on Monday, noting that the application is standard issue scareware that claims to scan for malware, displays fake ‘detection’ warnings about infections, then asks for money to remove the non-existent malware. But a new version of FakeXPA scareware take things a bit further: posing as a legitimate commercial AV package, AVG Antivirus 2011. Practices of rogue antivirus software have started to mimic those of
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