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Another Reason to Hate Trend Micro…

Tonight, one of my new clients asked me to clean up a rogue anti-virus app and install his new anti-virus, Trend Micro Titanium (…whatever that means). I popped the disc in, clicked install and bam!

Check out the screen shot below (click to enlarge):

Are you F’n kidd’in me? Trend Micro is NOT compatible with an On-Demand scanner (the free version of MalwareBytes is not real-time)? Personally, if it were me, I’d cancel this install and buy a full copy of MalwareBytes (which includes really good real-time protection).

Fake YouTube Messages – Your Account is Infected!

I was just doing my morning email chores when I stumbled across an email from my YouTube account. This is what it said:

s0m3b0de has sent you a message:
Your Account is Infected
Your YouTube account has been infected with a self mailing worm and will be terminated in approx. 48 hours if malicious activities continue… Scan your account NOW with YouTubes online scanner to remove this dangerous threat from your computer and prevent further spread of this worm.
http://scanner01(dot)netai(dot)net/scan (hyperlink removed)

Since I was on my Mac Book I decided to click that link and this it what I found: