Operations: What you Need to Know
This Week’s Top 10 Spyware Threats
At the top of the charts is a real nasty called Trojan.FakeAlert. It consists of files that cause false warnings of spyware on the computer. Usually the alerts are displayed in a balloon type pop-up from an icon in the system tray. Trojan.FakeAlert displays these false warnings when rogue security software is installed, usually by exploits, and is used to frighten the user into buying the rogue software. It goes by a number of aliases including DesktopScam, Trojan.Win32.StartPage.amn, Adware.WorldSearch, Adware.FindSpyware, Trojan-Fakealert.FB, Virus.Win32.Nsag.b, W32/Nsag.B, Virus.Win32.Nsag.a, Trojan.Downloader.Slvr, Trojan.TopAntispyware, Adware.Topantispyware, Trojan.Win32.TopAntiSpyware.
Needless to say you want to remove this bugger if you spot it.
Trojan.FakeAlert: Trojan
Trojan-Downloader.Zlob.Media-Codec: Trojan Downloader
Virtumonde: Adware (General)
ClickSpring.PuritySCAN: Adware (General)
Hotbar: Toolbar
WhenU.Save: Adware (General)
Rootkit.Win32.Agent.eq: Rootkit
Trojan.NewMediaCodec: Trojan Downloader
Trojan.Unclassified.gen: Trojan
MyGeek/CPVFeed: Browser Plug-in
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Michael Caruso
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