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  • Security Tidbits : World War 3 spam, New Rogues: PersonalAntiSpy Free and AntiVirus Lab 2009


    06 October, 2008, by Alex Eckelberry

    This is particularly nasty spam pushing a fake codec trojan:

    If you go to that link, you get to a very convincing site pushing a fake codec.  That CNNWorld was created yesterday, hosted in Iran.

    PersonalAntiSpy Free is a new rogue security product brought to you by Innovative Marketing

    PersonalAntiSpy Home Page

    93.190.139.197 Personalantispy. com

    Article continues after advert

    Typical fake/Scare scan page

    Once the rogue is installed it annoys with a series of fake alert notification.

    AntiVirus Lab 2009 is a new rogue security product a near clone of Antispycheck.

    AntiVirus Lab 2009 Home page

    66.232.113.62 Viruslabs2009. com

    Following site is used for direct installation.

    91.203.93.37 Iwantfriday. com

    Detection by existing antivirus engines on this one is really poor.

    Tags: Spam, Trojans
    Posted by
    Alex Eckelberry
    on 06 October, 2008
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