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Rogue AntiVirus is Going Green ;P

By on September 24, 2009 in Rogue Anti-Malware

Now this one is funny. I stopped by Ann’s house last night (one of my clients) and was greeted with a rogue that just made me laugh…Green AV!!! Obviously “going green” is a huge trend right now, so why not have a rogue AV that rides on that green trend. Personally that has to be the lamest marketing tactic I’ve ever seen…ever.

Uh oh, looks like she has a rootkit as well. Using GMER, I disabled the rootkit and then deleted it after reboot.

I installed Sandboxie on Ann’s computer and taught her how to use it. If Ann uses Sandboxie for browsing the internet (all the time) she should stay malware free.

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  • exit2600x

    Amazing, no engrish in there text. Just some punctuation mistakes.

  • Thermalcake

    By the time they spent on creating those GUIs (and names :D ) for these rogues they could make a REAL antivirus and they could earn some money LEGALLY.

  • http://remotehelpexpert.com/blog/ RHE

    I found that one last month, when it wasn’t trigering many sig files yet. only 8 out of 41 av recognized it then thru virustotal.com. Cute little thing. The “installer” deletes itself after execution and pretends that the download failed, but by then the damage is already done.

  • shifflav

    It’s ‘green’ in the aspect that after they steal your identity, you’ll be forced to live on less.

  • Jimmy James

    The thing I hate about this (or at least the one I have seen) is that it doesn’t trick the user through unstoppable popups, but rather convinces them to pay for it before they get infected… It’s like smoking cigarettes, you’re paying someone to kill you slowly

  • http://www.remove-malware.com franck

    when i read this i cracked up laughing
    i mean haha lol the name says it all i read that it deletes the installer after installing

    it IS green but has its down siders
    it cleans up after it selvs
    but still its a rouge (fake av)
    and it will probely trick some noobs into thinking its a real av and the name kinda helps people belive its real HAHA :P


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