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 woman in bikinis or underwear.
The accounts in question are:
emma_thompson90
hannahwatson90
madisonthomas90
oliviajenifer90
abigailhuston
alexisbarbara90
ashleymorgan90
samanthaedward9
The accounts appear to be in perfect synchronization in posting updates, the majority of which are sexual in nature.
If you spot any accounts on twitter like this you can go to their profile and click ‘Block and report for spam’, the team at twitter will then take a look and if necessary suspend the account.
