A New Scam Using An Old Twist: Fake Defragger Apps

[ritchie58]

We've all heard about fake antivirus programs, also known as scareware. These programs falsely claim that your computer is infected with malware and prompt you to buy a product that will do nothing for you, except put your credit card number into the hands of criminals.

 

Well now there are fake disk defraggers that masquerade as applications that fix disk errors on a computer. In a post today the GFI Labs (formerly Sunbelt Software) blog Dubbed the programs FakeAV-Defrag rogues and said they had names like HDDDiagnostic, HDDRepair, HDDRescue, and HDDPlus.

 

It would appear that the scammers are trying out the new programs to see which might best confuse potential victims and evade detection by legitimate antivirus software. The defragger clones emerged last month with names like UltraDefragger, ScanDisk and WinHDD and which pretended to find "HDD read/write errors. Earlier this month, there was PCoptimizer, PCprotection Center, and Privacy Corrector that were more generic security products rather than specifically antivirus, the post says.

 

Computer users should be suspicious of applications that are advertised via e-mail, pop up warnings about problems (especially immediately after you click on a Web page video), demand that you make a purchase before it will fix the problems, and prompt you to update your browser, GFI Labs said.

 

If you aren't sure if a program is legitimate, you can search by the name on a search engine or on GFI Labs' site.

Originally posted at CNET's InSecurity Complex

[duncan]

There are sites out there that have full rootkit installs and can completely shut your computer down, destroy data and leave you with a dead system that wont boot anymore.....

 

And do all sorts of nasty things to encourage more malware onboard.

 

Way way deyond trying to trick you into parting with cash. Also they can get control of your sytem and bandwidth for any purpose once onboard. as well as access your data and use your computer for illegal purposes.

 

I will list a link here that you would have to paste into your browser to look at.

 

NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE ANY SOFTWARE ON THIS SITE AS IT CONTAINS MALWARE!!!!!!!

 

If you carefully look at the way this site is setup, you can see how it cons you into downloading very dangerous malware.

 

Once you install this software your in deep trouble

 

 

You can browse the site and links but do not download anything!!

I have changed http to hppp so the site has to be accessed manually.

 

 

NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE ANY SOFTWARE ON THIS SITE AS IT CONTAINS MALWARE!!!!!!!

(LINK REMOVED BY ADMIN, THANKS, ORLANDO)

NOTE: DO NOT DOWNLOAD OR USE ANY SOFTWARE ON THIS SITE AS IT CONTAINS MALWARE!!!!!!!

 

 

There are a lot of sites around like this and ones that are much more subtle. this site has been active and heavily advertised through search engines for ages..

 

 

 

 

An obvious reason to have strong anti-virus and firewall software.

 

 

 

 

 

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