Category: Windows Vista

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.

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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.

I recommend :

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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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Fighting ‘Scareware’ with a brand new list!

Paul

I just got informed today that the [intlink id=”3944″ type=”post”]list of that we talked about a few day[/intlink] ago has been updated with more vendors:

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As you can see there have been a number of new Antivirus programs that have been added.   Some the ones that I like have been AVG,  [intlink id=”3884″ type=”post”]SuperANTISpyware[/intlink], [intlink id=”3778″ type=”post”]A-Squared on a USB Stick[/intlink],  and [intlink id=”3851″ type=”post”]Malwarebytes[/intlink].  As you can see once that one Techworld was published Several new Vendors came forward and wanted to get involved.   This is a great step for fighting Scareware because now we can have a list for people to go to for verification.   I hope we keep those fake Antivirus writers from defrauding innocent people out of there money.

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More Fake Antivirus Sites pop up

Paul

So in my last post, I talked about [intlink id=”3999″ type=”post”]How you get a computer Virus[/intlink]. Here I will talk about some of the common websites that are host to all those Fake Antivirus:

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  • homeav-2010.com ([intlink id=”3977″ type=”post”]Fake Homeantivirus 2010[/intlink])

  • antispyware-scannerv3.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Fake Personal Antivirus[/intlink])

  • antivirus-scannerv9.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Fake Personal Antivirus[/intlink])

  • onlinespywarescannerv3.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Fake Personal Antivirus[/intlink])

  • onlineantivirusscanv4.com ([intlink id=”3607″ type=”post”]Fake Personal Antivirus[/intlink])

  • scanriteweb.com ([intlink id=”3713″ type=”post”]Scareware site where it tries to get you to install a fake Antivirus[/intlink])

  • securityscanavailable.com ([intlink id=”3713″ type=”post”]Scareware site where it tries to get you to install a fake Antivirus[/intlink])

As you can see there are at least two sites that try to get you to install a fake Antivirus Software that is really malware.   I am sure the other 3 are doing something similar but might be blocking access to certain website with a [intlink id=”3918″ type=”post”]fake site adviser doing the dirty work[/intlink].

I also recommend checking out my [intlink id=”2205″ type=”page”]Antivirus Page[/intlink] and finding other good Antivirus Software to help battle malware.

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.

I recommend :

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