Fake Cloud AV 2012

[Dermot7]

This new variant-rogueware seems to have been generating attention in past weeks :

There is a new friend in the village. Many people thought that the fake antivirus (aka rogueware) business had decreased, and it was true that for a few months rogueware infections were not that prevalent, mainly due to the efforts made by law enforcement with the help of security companies, but it was a matter of time to have them back. In the last weeks we have seen an increase in the infections, and today I want to show you a new one that calls itself “Cloud AV 2012″.

Cybercriminals always try to confuse their victims, so they use names similar or equal to those used in real antivirus products. In this case they have taken advantage of the famous Panda Cloud AV to do their trick. Once it is installed in your computer, it will create a link in your desktop to open the program, but you won’t need to do it as as soon as it is installed it will open itself and will launch a system scan, which will give you as a result loads of malware found in your system. Of course that won’t be true, but they don’t care:

: http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/fake-cloud-av-2012/

+ more references : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/w...b-2615937b8f50

http://support.emsisoft.com/topic/65...-instructions/

https://forums.malwarebytes.org/inde...0&#entry498289

[Zyrtec]

Interesting video posted at Youtube showing how to remove that pest.



---http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OwEY7FHH1U ---




Thanks.

[Brandonn2010]

Cool GUI though, lol.