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 [...]
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Once in awhile I like to show off some of the malware I find when visit my St. Louis clients. Tonight I thought I’d treat you to a creative little rogue antivirus! When Joyce (my new client) would try visit free.avg.com (or any website) she would be presented with this fake little message…”Warning! Your system [...]
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As I work on the F-Secure review I thought I’d introduce HiJackThis logs before and after. Here is the current HijackThis Log for this (current) infected PC: Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 10:53:31 AM, on 9/26/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v6.00 SP2 (6.00.2900.2180) Boot mode: Normal [...]
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I discovered a new rogue on Saturday over at a clients house (Barb S.). This looks a lot like Windows Defender doesn’t it? Anyway, Barb had Trend Micro 2006 (which was working and updated) however Trend was completely unaware that there were applications like this running +40 pieces of malware hiding in System32. Removal: First [...]
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