Fake Antivirus
Friday, March 16, 2012
Data GFI Software, computer on 10 attacks. Variants of fake antivirus or Fake Antivirus is still crowded.
Where it comes from a fake antivirus. Most spread via spam. In the email example, given a link that leads to a site / address. When you click and go to the site then the criminals are already providing technical computer to find the weaknesses in their program can be infiltrated.
So far above techniques still used by Internet criminals, it is better not to carelessly click the link that is not clear. To keep the computer is not infected, computer users should take caution and understand what they need to click.
Most malware is stored at a particular site is not intentionally take advantage of updated computer, not in the patch and the sodium absorption ratio have antivirus system. Their target is the weakness of Microsoft and Adobe software bug.
Data GFI during the month of February, 10 variants of the attack by using fake antivirus malware, trojan or a malicious program is reported below.
Detection Type Percent
Trojan Trojan.Win32.Generic 35.63
GamePlayLabs Browser Plug-in 3.66
Adware Yontoo 2.79
INF.Autorun (v) Trojan 1:41
Trojan.Win32.Ramnit.c (v) Trojan 1:02
Trojan-Trojan Spy.Win32.Zbot.gen 0.94
Virus.Win32.Sality.at (v) 0.94 Virus.W32
Worm.Win32.Downad.Gen (v) 0.92 Worm.W32
Trojan.Win32.Jpgiframe (v) Trojan 0.87
GameVance Adware (General) 0.87
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