Category: Windows Update

Fake Security Adviser from explorersecurityhelper.com

Paul

I saw this come in my way and I thought I would share it:

fakeexplorersecurityhelper

Here is a site that is another scareware attempt from the makers of [intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Personal Antivirus[/intlink].   They do this to get money from unsuspecting users who think this will protect there system but the truth of the matter, they are either trying to get you to install even more Malware or buy a program that doesn’t do what it claims.   You should never buy from a site you do not know anything about and you should never install software from a site you have no knowledge of

Threat to System : Critical

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Advice : Do a Complete system scan and make sure you don’t have any more hidden malware. This has altered your browser and can be monitoring your system and should be taken off your system. You should consider your system compromised until you clean your system.

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List of Malware Sites for July 26, 2009

Paul

personalantivirus3

These malware authors have been busy and made a few new sites to scam people here they are, Remember these sites are active and should be avoided:

  • protectionsystemlab.com ( Scareware Protection System)

  • secure-antivirus-scanv3.com (Personal Antivirus Scareware)

  • scanonlinedirect.com

These sites listed try to get you to download a program sometimes called install.exe, Setup.exe, and are most likely just a way to get you even more infected with malware.  Other sites want to you upgrade which means you probably have some kinda of malware on your system to begin with.   These sites are what I call scareware and will always try to scare you into either buying or installing software.   These sites don’t do anything else but try to make money or get your system infected for them to use.  A couple of these sites require you to quit out of your browser by going to your Taskmanager.   These fake antivirus softwares don’t really protect your system at all but only to annoy the end user into giving these guys a free ride. Two of the sites are now redirecting to Adult Friend Finder, but still should be avoided because of the possibility of an exploit code trying to take over you computer.

Threat to System : Moderate

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Advice : Do a Complete system scan and make sure you don’t have any more hidden malware. You never know what else is on your system.

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List of Malware sites for July 25, 2009

Paul

Antivirussystempro1

All Of these sites listed below are active and should not be visited:

  • folder-antivirus-scanv1.com

  • systemsecuritycenter.com

  • sheltercloud.cn (Now Redirecting to Adult Friend Finder)

  • searchav.net (Now Redirecting to Adult Friend Finder)

  • strelyk.info

  • gagtemple.info

These sites listed try to get you to download a program sometimes called install.exe, Setup.exe, and are most likely just a way to get you even more infected with malware.  Other sites want to you upgrade which means you probably have some kinda of malware on your system to begin with.   These sites are what I call [intlink id=”3805″ type=”post”]scareware[/intlink] and will always try to scare you into either buying or installing software.   These sites don’t do anything else but try to make money or get your system infected for them to use.  A couple of these sites require you to quit out of your browser by going to your Taskmanager.   These fake antivirus softwares don’t really protect your system at all but only to annoy the end user into giving these guys a free ride. Two of the sites are now redirecting to Adult Friend Finder, but still should be avoided because of the possibility of an exploit code trying to take over you computer.

Threat to System : Moderate

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Advice : Do a Complete system scan and make sure you don’t have any more hidden malware.

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Updated list of scareware Sites 7/24/09

Paul

As you have read in my Previous post:

  • [intlink id=”4002″ type=”post”]More Fake Antivirus Sites Pop up[/intlink]

  • [intlink id=”3990″ type=”post”]Don’t Take it Personal, It’s just Fake Antivirus[/intlink]

  • [intlink id=”3964″ type=”post”]More Personal Antivirus Fake or Scareware sites[/intlink]

I figured we would update those list with some more that came out yesterday or Wednesday.   I will probably be keeping this up. This will help people find out domains that should be avoided.

personalantivirus3

So here are a few that I’ve found:

  1. personalfolderscanv2.com

  2. onlineantispywarescanv6.com

  3. onlinevirusscanv9.com

  4. privatevirusscannerv2.com

  5. Windowssecurityinfo.com

All those are [intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Personal Antivirus scareware sites[/intlink] that try to convince you that you have a virus and tries to get you to buy a registered copy of this fake Antivirus which does nothing.  They make money by not doing anything.  These sites might also try to get you to install the fake software which in reality is a Trojan, Virus, Or just Malware all together.  You should never install software from sites you don’t know anything about.

Threat to System :Moderate

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Advice : Do a Complete system scan and make sure you don’t have any more hidden malware.

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Computer Security : How not to get Infected.

Paul

In my [intlink id=”3999″ type=”post”]previous blog post[/intlink] we talked about how the computer would get infected with Malware. Now on this blog post we will discuss how you can prevent most to all of these from ever happening again on your system.

Now let’s face it we are more and more going to be on the internet.   This is almost a necessity for a business or individuals.  You see Businesses have built there product around the internet and that is why it is necessary to be on the internet.

What program not to use to Surf the web

You should consider getting away from Internet Explorer,  I don’t say this lightly.   It may take Microsoft Months to fix a hole in something that involves [intlink id=”2301″ type=”post”]ActiveX or Something like that[/intlink].  We know how Microsoft will only[intlink id=”1951″ type=”post”] push out the really big security holes[/intlink] out of Cycle but keep the minor ones in Cycle.   [intlink id=”2301″ type=”post”]Hackers have jumped on exploits[/intlink] before when it comes Internet Explorer and use them on Black Wednesday, not less than 24 hours after the patches have been released.

Although these examples I showing doesn’t mean that they haven’t been fixed they are showing you how long it takes sometimes to fix them.

What you should use to Surf the web

One of te ways to prevent getting infected is keeping your browser up to date as quickly as possible, and I believe Mozzila Browser which is called FireFox is the answer.   One reason I recommend this to anything else is it is a community based browser and that means there is no waiting for a fix to come out when you know about it they have been working to fix the security hole.

They don’t wait till next month to send out a patch they usually only take a week or two to come up plugging the hole.   So that is why I always recommend to my clients to use FireFox instead of Internet Explorer.

I have 3 Addons that I would recommend along with FireFox, these addons help stop some of the most common ways to exploit your system.   The first one is called NOSCRIPT it is good to prevent scripts from being used on the web or on your system.  The next Addon I would recommend is Bit.ly Preview this is good for any shorten URL that is out there and will show you where it is really going.    It will also work well with Twitter web interface really well and let you know were a url is actually going to easily. Finally the last on I would recommend to my customers is AdBlocker Plus, this one is really good to use for like Facebook or other social sits where there might be a scareware redirect advertisement.  This will prevent some of those Notorious attempts at getting you to click a fake ad.

Also you may want to consider also installing some [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Firewall and Antivirus[/intlink] software to better protect your system from getting a virus in the first place.

On my next post I will talk about some common ways to trick you into installing a virus or scareware on your system. So stay tuned.

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