Spyware Techie

Do you know what Privacy Components is?

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Privacy Components is the name of a fake anti-spyware program that pretends to eliminate the threat of spyware or malware. Privacy Components does not eliminate anything but money out of your wallet if you ever make the mistake of purchasing the Privacy Components program. It is not recommended that you even install Privacy Components because it facilitates many deceiving tactics.

Privacy Components or PrivacyComponents, may come from a Trojan such as Zlob or Vundo. Once Privacy Components is installed it may start to scan your system automatically displaying many fake scan results. In addition to the fake scan that Privacy Components performs, it starts to display popup messages or system alerts warning you of infections that are not even on your computer.

Conficker Worm has now spread to over 8.9 million computers worldwide

If you remember we just posted a few days ago about the Conficker Worm spreading to over 8 million computers worldwide. It is now apparent that it has spread to about 8.9 million PC’s worldwide from just 2.4 million as initially reported. Panda Security estimates that one in every 16 PC’s could be infected with the Conficker worm.

The Conficker Worm, or known as W32.Downadup.B variant, has affected Windows computers where it has spread from corporate networks to USB Flash drives. It seems that this worm infection may generate hundreds of domain names daily for the download of malicious files thus spreading the infection to even more systems. Conficker can be compared to that of a botnet where it carries out these automated functions to spread itself.

Do you know what Privacy Protection Suite is?

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Privacy Protection Suite (PPSuite) is a program that tries to trick computer users through popups or alerts that display imaginary viruses. These tactics are used to ultimately get a computer user to purchase a full version of Privacy Protection Suite.

Privacy Protection Suite is basically a rogue anti-spyware program. Like other rogue anti-spyware programs, Privacy Protection Suite will not remove or even detect legitimate viruses, spyware or any other type of malware. Everything about Privacy Protection Suite is fake including the system scan that it performs. Privacy Protection suite may come from Trojans or malicious sources online such as ppsuite.com.

Do you know what Adware Remover is?

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Adware Remover, or AdwareRemover as some call it, is a fake anti-spyware program that comes from well known Trojan infections over the internet. Adware Remover does not remove adware despite its name. Adware Remover, instead, may actually give you many popups just like annoying adware does. Adware Remover is not a program that you want to download and install for any reason.

Now that the 44th President of the USA has taken office we start to see new Phishing scams arise that take advantage of new policies or programs.

What is the ObamaStimulusProgram.com web site? ObamaStimulusProgram.com is nothing more than a phishing web site that may appear to be a site that is suppose to educate you on Obama’s new stimulus plan and how you are able to obtain free government grants. Sure, this site does that for you. All you have to do is pay $2.95 and then they will ever-so-kindly bill you an additional $89 a month.

Do you know what Antivirus XP Pro is?

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Antivirus XP Pro is a fake anti-spyware program that is known to recently promote itself through false popups and system scans. Antivirus XP Pro may boot into memory at Windows startup where it may start to automatically scan your computer for parasites. The results from the Antivirus XP Pro system scan were found to be fake and supports the fact that Antivirus XP Pro cannot be trusted to detect or remove spyware from your computer.

Antivirus XP Pro may be installed onto your computer without your permission. Usually this process starts with a Trojan infection such as Zlob or Vundo which could have been downloaded through a fake video codec or via a malicious file found on a file sharing network. Antivirus XP Pro may also start to change settings on your system making certain functions unusable at times creating a situation where your computer is no longer secure from outside attacks.

We just reported earlier about the Conficker Worm affecting over 3 Million hosts around the world but recent reports have stated that the Conficker worm, aka Downadup Worm, has spread rapidly to infect over 8 million computers. This is a massive outbreak of a serious worm infection that may expose infected computers to hijacking.

Mostly corporate systems are currently affected by this worm outbreak.

W32/Conficker worm or W32.Downadup Causing Havoc to Millions of hosts around the world today.

We received a tip from a reader about the W32/Conficker worm affecting about 3.5 million hosts worldwide. The tip came in from our reader Chad who first saw this report on McAfee’s avertlabs and Zdnet’s blogs.

Apparently the W32/Conficker worm or what some may call W32.Downadup, is currently spreading through a patched security update that was released last year. The security patch was needed to prevent an attack similar to what is happening now with the Conficker worm. The latest threat was discovered in part by F-Secure, a security firm, conducting an experiment monitoring domain registration algorithms. The results are absolutely stunning when you can say about 3.5 million hosts have been affected by this attack.

Do you know what Spyware Protect 2009 is?

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Spyware Protect 2009 is a fake spyware remover program. Spyware Protect 2009 may be installed through the Vundo Trojan infection which may be downloaded from a malicious source over the internet or even a file sharing network.

Spyware Protect 2009, despite the name, is not a “spyware protection” program nor is it able to detect and remove spyware. Spyware Protect 2009 is a serious risk to the security of your system. Spyware Protect 2009 may continually display popups and alert system messages, which can be irritating, notifying you of a fake infection or discovery of a virus. Do not trust these messages, they are designed to force you to purchase the Spyware Protect 2009 program which is an absolute waste of money.

Some of you already know that Phishing is basically an attack to a legitimate website where HTML code is planted to steal user information.

A recent attack against major web browsers involves using a popup security alert window that asks a computer user to enter their username and password or even other security questions. This may be difficult task on the part of the hackers who created the bug to perform this task in that you have to trick people into believing the popup is legitimate.

This would not be so scary if the phishing filters picked up this type of threat but what if the phishing protection on most popular web browsers were not adequate enough to detect this threat. Well, the time is here. Many popular web browsers have become vulnerable to a new phishing bug attack.