Peaches Posted February 24, 2009 Report Share Posted February 24, 2009 New scareware sends you to fake Download.com reviews by Seth RosenblattLast week, BleepingComputer.com reported on how to remove a new variant of an old scareware. This new nasty, known most commonly as Antivirus2010 or Anti-Virus-1, points you to spoofed versions of Download.com, ZDNet, PCMag.com, and other software sites, demanding that you download their program to clean your computer. Of course, it does nothing of the sort, merely perpetuating the infection. However, the manner and methods Anti-Virus-1 uses to get you there are extremely clever. The infection part of the malware does whatever it's been designed to do, so you can see that you've been infected with malware. What you don't realize at this point is that it's hacked your hosts file, too, so that when you go to a software site you don't ever make it to the site you're trying to get to. You wind up on a skinned Web site that looks like the site you're expecting, but isn't. With the Download.com spoof, you can see that they're using our old design, which CNET abandoned last summer. Clicking on any link besides the download button will take you to the same page that the legitimate site would've taken you to. Hit the download button, though, and you get their fake malware remover, which in fact does the opposite, perpetuating the infection. CNet News for story and screenshots: http://news.cnet.com/security/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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