Rogueware peddlers feed off McAfee fiasco

Capp · Apr 28, 2010

After McAfee pushed out a faulty signature update on Wednesday that crippled thousands, perhaps millions, of Windows XP Service Pack 3 users and the snafu drew the attention of bloggers and the New York Times, as might be expected, peddlers of rogue anti-virus solutions capitalized on the attention to push their phony "cures."

Using a tried-and-true strategy, the rogueware dealers once again took advantage of buzz generated in the media – in the past it's been anything from a natural disaster to a celebrity meltdown – to poison search results on the popular search engines, like Google and Bing. Using SEO tricks, the rogueware peddlers manipulated search results so that when a panicked user keyed in a search term, such as "McAfee update" or "McAfee 5958 [the faulty update's designation]," they retrieved links at the top of their search results offering fake anti-virus software.

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siljaline · Apr 28, 2010

A recent ESET Blog entry explains the recent SEO poisoinings of late.

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