AV scam: is it a rogue or is it AVG’s free edition for sale?

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Alert reader Laurie (my boss actually) forwarded a copy an email she received from a friend. It said the sender was “…pleased to announce the newest version of Antivirus 2010 for Windows.”

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We checked out the URL (officialversion.ru) in the email, putting in our name and “promotion code” (actually any number will do) , went past the “member login page” that made some mentions of the very legitimate AVG anti-virus company, and went on to a credit card payment page. The REAL AVG company (fourth largest AV vendor in the world) offers “AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition 2011” in addition to security software that users purchase.


We noticed the logo on the page mimicked the colors of the AVG logo

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Site is loaded with scam AV product pages

Last week we blogged about a site that was advertised in spam email that appeared to be either selling rogue security products or else was selling AVG's FREE antivirus product ("AV scam: is it a rogue or is it AVG’s free edition for sale?”)

A friend at AVG investigated just a big more and responded:

“LOL look at this:

hxxp://officialversion.ru/antivirus/1/
hxxp://officialversion.ru/antivirus/2/
hxxp://officialversion.ru/antivirus/3/
hxxp://officialversion.ru/antivirus/4/
hxxp://officialversion.ru/antivirus/5/
hxxp://officialversion.ru/antivirus/6/

The eight professional-looking pages (three are nearly identical) on the site all have generic names with all the design elements that are associated with the advertising of real security products: Symantec’s distinctive yellow colors, the shields and use of the year in the name.



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