January 2010
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New Scareware/Rogue Removal tool soon to be...
With a somewhat bloated market full of software for removing infections, another tool may seem unwanted… However do you really want to run a 2 hour scan to remove a rogue? That is the aim of ScareAware - my new tool especially for removing Rogues.
The tool, which should hopefully be released in the next few days, will include the following features in first release;
Updater
Simple...
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Lingering Rogue - MalwareRemovalBOT
Rogues, also known as Scareware, are often around for a week or two before their creators make a new variant with a new name… However the rogue, called MalwareRemovalBot which popped up towards to end of 2008 is still promoting itself to users on twitter.
It appears that a series of 8 twitter accounts are linking to the site of the rogue, each account’s profile picture contains a...
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Malware being pushed through rumours of Johnny...
Johnny Depp today joins the long list of Celebrities who have had rumours of their death spread on the internet. He also joins the list of Celebrities who have had these rumours exploited by malware.
A search on Google.co.uk (Found Here) found no malicious results in the first 5 pages, however when clicking ‘Results from the UK Only’, all results but 1 on the first page linked to the...