Remove-Malware.com » Malware Warnings http://remove-malware.com Antivirus Reviews For 2011 / 2012, Tools and How To's Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:29:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Searching Online Whitepages Often Leads To Rogue Antivirus…or Worsehttp://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/searching-online-whitepages-often-leads-to-rogue-antivirus-or-worse/ http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/searching-online-whitepages-often-leads-to-rogue-antivirus-or-worse/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:02:27 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/?p=2461

I’m often curious on how my clients become infected.  What websites they visited, what they were searching for and of course what kind of protection they had on their computer.   After taking notes for a month it seams that 75% of the clients infected with rogue (fake) anti-virus first observed the rogues infecting their [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/searching-online-whitepages-often-leads-to-rogue-antivirus-or-worse/feed/ 4 Nasty New Rootkit Patches Atapi.syshttp://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/nasty-new-rootkit-patches-atapi-sys/ http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/nasty-new-rootkit-patches-atapi-sys/#comments Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:55:16 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/?p=1930

For the past 7 days I’ve been seeing a new rootkit (not sure of the name) that patches the atapi.sys driver.  This rootkit was NOT detected by any of the applications I use in my bootable anti-malware toolkit. Full scans with: Avira SAS MBAM Spyware Doctor GMER revealed nothing.  I was still getting all searches [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/nasty-new-rootkit-patches-atapi-sys/feed/ 35 Confricker Worm Is Worse Than I Thought…http://remove-malware.com/uncategorized/confricker-worm-is-worse-than-i-thought/ http://remove-malware.com/uncategorized/confricker-worm-is-worse-than-i-thought/#comments Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:16:40 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/?p=957 The Confricker Worm now attacks (and most likely infects): Shared Computers with weak passwords (home users in workgroups) Computers without the latest security updates.   Go here to download all your critical Microsoft patches! USB sticks and external hard drives Computers with open shares (common in corporate networks) Computers with weak passwords….ouch.  Confricker is actually hacking [...]

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Attention Skype users:  If you receive a Skype message that resembles the text below ignore it.  This is fraudulent message that redirects users to a rogue anti-malware site. ======================================================== Update Alarm ® says: WINDOWS REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION ============================= ATTENTION ! Security Center has detected malware on your computer ! Affected Software: Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/skype-fake-alert-message/feed/ 4 AntiVirus 2008 XP – Path To Infectionhttp://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/271/ http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/271/#comments Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:12:53 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/?p=271

First, don’t click on any emails claiming to be an update from MSN or Microsoft.  MSN/Microsoft never sends emails about a “Free Update”.  If you want to update your PC *always* go to Microsoft.com (NEVER click on any links in an email offering windows updates). Next, I did click on this link through one of [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/271/feed/ 5 More Greeting Card Malwarehttp://remove-malware.com/uncategorized/more-greeting-card-malware/ http://remove-malware.com/uncategorized/more-greeting-card-malware/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:27:02 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/?p=241

I was just checking my mail at remove-malware.com and someone was nice enough to send me e-card malware! I think I’m going to see what the .exe does in one of my clean virtual machines. I had 3 clients this week that opened this e-card.exe file. They didn’t get a cute card, instead that got [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/uncategorized/more-greeting-card-malware/feed/ 2 A Weekend Of RootKits: Figaro.sys Rootkithttp://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/a-weekend-of-rootkits-figarosys-rootkit/ http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/a-weekend-of-rootkits-figarosys-rootkit/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:04:23 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/?p=236 I took a few appointments this weekend and witnessed the same infection over and over again…Figaro.sys. The Figaro.sys rootkit is dropped in c:\windows\system32\drivers (on vista) and on XP i’ve seen it in the DLLCACHE folder. I don’t know exactly what it does but I can give you the symptoms: Random reboots Virtumonde drops Very slow [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/a-weekend-of-rootkits-figarosys-rootkit/feed/ 4 Malware Being Advertised Through Adwordshttp://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/malware-being-advertised-through-adwords/ http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/malware-being-advertised-through-adwords/#comments Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:29:43 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/uncategorized/malware-being-advertised-through-adwords/

Well, I just signed into my Gmail account and noticed this: Do you see it??? “Free Antivirus XP 2008″…sad but true. I’m seeing XP Antivirus 2008 ads all over the place inside of Google related sites that use Adwords. In-case anyone doesn’t know XP Antivirus 2008 is Rogue (fake) Anti-malware designed to basically steal your [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/malware-being-advertised-through-adwords/feed/ 6 Rogue Antivirus: How They Work and How to Remove Themhttp://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/rogue-antivirus-why-are-there-so-many-now/ http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/rogue-antivirus-why-are-there-so-many-now/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:16:56 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/?p=190 Rogue Anti-virus applications are being produced in ever increasing numbers each week now. Why? This is a scam that works big time! Rogue Anti-Virus scams are able to steal money, credit card numbers and sometimes entire identities. Below you can see the life cycle of a Rogue Anti-Virus scam. 1. You get infected with a [...]

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]]> http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/rogue-antivirus-why-are-there-so-many-now/feed/ 2 Worst Worm…http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/worst-worm/ http://remove-malware.com/malware/malware-warnings/worst-worm/#comments Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:56:39 +0000 malwarekilla http://remove-malware.com/malware-warnings/worst-worm/ Ugggg…I just got my first USB stick worm and let me tell you….it SUCKED!!! This worm created or infected autorun.exe on my usb flash drive. Once you insert the USB stick into a PC it drops the files below into the following folders: C:\windows\system32\ftp32.dll C:\windows\system32\drivers\spools.exe (boy is that little .exe annoying) C:\Documents and Settings\user\ctfmon.exe Once [...]

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