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Fake Tax Refund Email is Spreading to Inboxes

February 4th, 2010
At least 20.000 people have been recently sent an e-mail telling about tax refund deadline. The email pretends to have come from HM Revenue & Customs and gives a link to the application form online.Those who have received the email are recommended to fill it in. The form asks the details of your credit card [...] Read more on Fake Tax Refund Email is Spreading to Inboxes

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Security-Personal2010.com

February 4th, 2010
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It is highly recommended avoiding Security-Personal2010.com domain because it is known to be malicious. That’s because Security-Personal2010.com is closely connected to Internet Security 2010 rogue anti-spyware which uses this website combined with browser hijacker for a successful distribution. Hijacker is usually distributed by Trojans viruses that modify Hosts file and change browser settings to make [...] Read more on Security-Personal2010.com removal guide

Rogue Anti-Spyware

Your PC Protector

February 3rd, 2010
your_pc_protector
Your PC Protector is a rogue antispyware that can be characterized as extremely bad and dangerous application. It must be added that YourPCProtector was created after Windows Police Pro malware, so there should be no surprise that scammers have simply used the same aggressive tactics trying to rip people off. At first, program similarly imitates [...] Read more on Your PC Protector removal guide

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GuardWWW

February 3rd, 2010
GuardWWW_550
GuardWWW (also known as Guard WWW) is a rogue antispyware that was released by well known WiniSoft. Just like the other members hailing from this group, GuardWWW uses the same GUI on its fake security alerts. If it happens for you to get this rogue installed into your PC, you will definitely be “informed” that [...] Read more on GuardWWW removal instructions

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Trojan-BNK.Win32.Keylogger.gen

February 2nd, 2010
trojanbnkwin32keyloggergen
Don’t fall into misleading information about Trojan-BNK.Win32.Keylogger.gen which can be announced to be detected on your machine. In reality, it’s only XP Internet Security 2010 rogueware which uses such invented threats to make you scared about your Pc’s security. Trojan-BNK.Win32.Keylogger.gen is an imaginary infection, a made-up virus which is expected to push PC users into [...] Read more on How to remove Trojan-BNK.Win32.Keylogger.gen?

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Win 7 Antivirus Pro

February 1st, 2010
Win 7 Antivirus Pro is a rogue program that similarly to its relative programs Antivirus Vista 2010, Win 7 Antispyware 2010 or other ones pretends to be an update for Windows installed via Automatic Updates. However, when inside the system it becomes very aggressive application which is very hard to remove. Win 7 Antivirus Pro [...] Read more on Win 7 Antivirus Pro removal instructions

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XP Antivirus Pro 2010

February 1st, 2010
xpantiviruspro2010
XP Antivirus Pro 2010 (also called XPAntivirusPro2010 or XP Antivirus Pro) program is a fake security application which usually recommends for its victims to activate its “licensed” version. Trying to convince them even more, XP AntivirusPro 2010 imitates scanning the computer for malware and detects hundreds of invented cyber threats. Additionally, for their elimination so [...] Read more on Stop XP Antivirus Pro 2010 from harming your PC

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MyPcSecure

February 1st, 2010
mypcsecure
In fact, MyPcSecure (also called as My Pc Secure) is a rogue anti-spyware program which hails from the huge family of malwares called WiniSoft. MyPcSecure has numbers of clones where PCSecureNet, APcSecure and APcSafe are the latest of them. All these programs are dedicated to push trustful people into paying their money for the commercial [...] Read more on MyPcSecure removal guide

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Antivirus Soft

February 1st, 2010
Antivirus Soft rogue anti-spyware
In the beginning, Antivirus Soft looks like a perfectly normal and legitimate anti-spyware. Note: don’t fall into its professionally created looks because just after being installed into the system it reveals to be just a new variant of Antivirus Live. Hailing from this nasty rogue, Antivirus Soft should be called just the upgraded version which [...] Read more on Antivirus Soft removal guide

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AntiMalware Defender

February 1st, 2010
antimalwaredefender
AntiMalware Defender is another version of rogue anti-viruses that pretend being made by Microsoft. This scamware is distributed using fake alerts about a new update for Windows operating system. That supposed update contains AntiMalware defender. The alert looks like this : Antimalware security update for Windows XP (KB961118) Size: 433KB This critical update will install [...] Read more on Stop AntiMalware Defender from harming your PC

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