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Misleading Applications ? Show Me The Money! (Part 3) Wednesday, 28 January 2009 06:12 Welcome back to this blog series on misleading applications. This is the concluding article, so if you need a refresher on what we?ve covered to get to this point, have a look at the first two parts (part 1 and part 2). Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Security-Risks/Misleading-Applications-Show-Me-The-Money-Part-3/ba-p/383011

Misleading Applications ? Show Me The Money! (Part 2) Thursday, 22 January 2009 07:26 The first article of this blog series provided an introduction to rogue applications that parade as fake antivirus scanners and/or fake ?system cleaners.? Once installed, these misleading applications attempt to scare the user into believing that his or her computer is infected with dozens or more threats. Today, I?m going to continue discussing the ways in which malicious applications make it onto a victim?s system. In this article I will show you the distribution vectors for fake scanner Web pages. Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Security-Risks/Misleading-Applications-Show-Me-The-Money-Part-2/ba-p/381409   Misleading Applications ? Show Me The Money! Tuesday, 20 January 2009 06:14 Lately there has been a huge influx of misleading applications (a.k.a. rogue or fake antivirus applications) plaguing users. By traditional definition, these programs are rogue applications that parade as fake antivirus scanners and/or fake ?system cleaners.? Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Security-Risks/Misleading-Applications-Show-Me-The-Money/ba-p/380511   Misleading Applications Start Tipping Saturday, 17 January 2009 01:21 Authors of misleading applications have always been coming up with new techniques in order to entice or scare users into buying their fake products. Once installed on the system, a misleading application uses various social engineering techniques, some of which involve displaying fake scans, fake threats, and fake error messages. Source : https://forums.symantec.com/t5/Security-Risks/Misleading-Applications-Start-Tipping/ba-p/379819   The (File)Name Game! Saturday, 04 October 2008 02:38 Digging into our honeypots and spam-trap systems to look for malicious attachments is always an interesting exercise. We can identify different spam campaigns and map together malicious binaries by correlating attachments and filenames. Nevertheless, its also funny to see how the bad guys are still trying Source : https://forums.symantec.com/syment/blog/article?blog.id=security_risks&message.id=51#M51

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