![]() ![]() Normal users should be taught that not all pop-ups or message prompts come from M$ or their machine and are therefore to be trusted. People have a good protection against this if they use Firefox 3 with the NoScript extension installed. Test IE browser & if vulnerable will crash. To test if the browser is vulnerable (IE6 is): To easily set a killbit for setslice-0-day use ZProtector from: SAS and MBAM are anti-spyware programs that will do a reliable removal of these annoying fake av rogues. These Fake Anti-Virus Programs are actually spyware/scumware/malware, the site bestantivirus2009DOTcom is still being advertised through Google Adwords and uses browser exploits like setslice and AOL IM exploits to secretly install this fakeware/malware. I guess I just want to let the devs, and users alike know that this is really starting to be a problem virus, and that so far avast isn't stopping it. For a test I intentionally infected a system and found that while avast did pop up a warning, the virus (or spyware or malware or whatever we want to call these programs) just forced itself past.įrom a search I see that there are many others that have this same problem, and I am just wondering if an update is coming that will close this hole? Do we know why it's showing up as a legitimate program? We have been able to remove them successfully for the most part, but what concerns me is that avast doesn't catch them. However in the past month or so, we have been getting call after call about these new fake antivirus viruses.so far I have seen "Microsoft Anti-Virus", "XP Antivirus", "MS Antivirus 2008", "MS Antivirus 2009", and "Vista Antivirus". I'm work for an IT consulting company and we use Avast exclusively with our customers. ![]()
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