An amazing article about how the “bad guys” are making some serious coin with malware… The presence of rogue anti-virus products, also known as scareware, on a Microsoft Windows computer is often just the most visible symptom of a more serious and insidious system-wide infection. To understand why, it helps to take a peek inside [...]
malware botnets have the largest “cloud”
Who’s got the biggest cloud in the tech universe? Google? Pretty big, but no. Amazon? Lots and lots of servers, but not even close. Microsoft? They’re just getting started. Household names all, but their capacity pales to that of the biggest cloud on the planet, the network of computers controlled by the Conficker computer worm. [...]
Ripping on the mainstream security software
Back Story, for you bored people out there- I used to subscribe to the “Langa Letter” by Fred Langa. He merged with Windows Secrets a few years ago. I got THIS in a e-newsletter: http://windowssecrets.com/2010/03/18/01 saying how awesome the various internet security suites are, including McAfee. I was “horrified” to say the least. These people [...]
rogue database
http://roguedatabase.net/RogueDL.php I had a customer call me today and complain that the Microsoft Security Essentials icon was missing. After talking with them for a minute, he mentioned he had “Malware Professional 5.0″ installed. Huh? He informed me that he paid $30 for it, and came across it from Priform CCleaner’s website. I don’t know about [...]
