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Monday 22 August, 2011
FakeAV Trojan pretends to be an antivirus to steal datum from th
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Recently Norton 360 has intercepted a sort of fake antivirus and system patch Trojan called Fake AV. This kind of Trojan warns the users their computer have safety risks by passing its vicous websites off Windows flip window, so that they can embedded the viruses into the computers.
It is reported that this FakeAV is able to distort the browers homepage, collect and spread the victims’ information, and even compel them to install many players. The computer users can download Norton 360 5.0 to search and kill it. The safety institutions pointed out that it is popular for viruses to pretend the antiviruses since 2006, and it is rampant online cheating means. Google reported that it covers 15% of all malicious softwares, Microsoft has launched a patchy for some fake antivirus before.
According to Norton 360 experts explaination, the reason why the fake Trojan can deceive lots of net citizens lies in that the website page animation make a hacked false appearance to misguide the users to believe that their computers are hacked. The hackers will guide the users to hxxp://you-o.com/windows-safe/b.html by page links and email, and flip the window shows that your computers are hacked, after you click it, there will be a download link, once click the link, and the page will advice them to change the homepage, and then download a fake Windows patchy, that is the very FakeAV Trojan. After the virus starts running, it will collect the users’ information to the server-side, and even download several softwares secretly. There was a false Trojan called ads. bomb several years ago, which worked out a computers heat explosion trap to tempt the computer users to pay for a software registration code. After the net citizens closed the webpage, all hacked phenomenon will disappear. Norton 360 experts remind the computers users to install the latest Norton 360 5.0 to intercept it once the your computers are infected by FakeAV so as to avoid the loss of your information. If you’d like to order discount Norton 360 5.0, and you can come to www.teezsoft.com.
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