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Slew Of Rogue Anti-Spyware Pushing Sites


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#1 TeMerc

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Posted 14 December 2005 - 06:47 PM

Sunbelt blog has uncovered a few new sites pushing rogue anti-spyware tools, such as SpyAxe and Winfixer, both known around the security forums and listed on Rogue \Suspect Anti-Spyware list among many others.

Read links below for details:

It's a security scam party, and this is one party you don't want to crash

Patrick and Adam found a bunch more of these “security scam” sites.

IPs below, feel free to put these in your block lists.

Newly found sites

Mattie Muirhead
Florence, AL US
wm @ needupdate[dot]com
85.255.115.174 dns404[dot]net
85.255.115.130 needupdate[dot]com
85.255.115.173 yoursystemupdate[dot]com
85.255.115.172 systemwarning[dot]com

Mag Dicacik
Praha, CZ
mag @ sexpicporn[dot]com
85.255.115.172 securitywarnings[dot]net

Sites already known

Henn Preson
Stockholm, SE
henn @ teeeen[dot]com

85.255.115.130 Warningmessage[dot]com
85.255.115.131 syserrors[dot]com

Mag Dicacik
Praha, CZ
mag @ sexpicporn[dot]com

85.255.115.131 notfound404[dot]com
85.255.115.132 Updateyoursystem[dot]com
85.255.115.170 securityerrors[dot]com
85.255.115.179 hdnsservidce[dot]com
85.255.115.180 downldboost[dot]com


Full Read @ Sunbelt Blog

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Wondering how people get to these bogus security sites and download junk like SpyAxe?

Our spyware researchers have been investigating Vcodec.com. This is a site that has a program called “VCodec v3.05b is new generation multimedia compressor/decompressor which registers into the Windows collection of multimedia drivers...”

Full Read @ SunbeltBlog


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