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The Rogues Gallery !
Highly suspect warning messages
This page contains screengrabs of highly dubious pieces of software. Warning you about certain things - but they themselves are the bad pieces of software.
The tell tale signs usually follow some or all of these rules
- You cannot remove the message
- The software automatically starts up without you doing anything
- Absence of a brand name
- The software appears to find bad things
- The software wants payment before it will remove things
- You pay your money and things then get worse
DON'T BE FOOLED BY THEM!
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April 2011 - Spyware Protection - This user was running ESET smart security
March 2011 - Windows Power Expansion - fake
Windows Power Expansion - Deny
2011 - Antivirus 8 - start screen
Antivirus 8 - fake message saying virus detected
Spambot - This user was running Kaspersky
Fake Scan Results
November 2010 - Thinkpoint - start screen
Thinkpoint - pretend scan
October 2010 - Smart Engine - results
Smart Engine - Infected results
Smart Engine - Infected results
March 2010 - Vista Internet Security - This customer was running Norton 360 and Windows Vista
March 2010 - Vista Internet Security - Fake Warning Message
March 2010 - Windows Security Centre - Saying Vista Internet Security is switched off
March 2010 - Rogue Internet Explorer message - about:blank
March 2010 - Fake Firewall alert
March 2010 - System Hacked Warning
March 2010 - A Whole load of bogus balloon messages
February 2010 - AntiVirus Plus - This customer was running Vista with Nod32 AntiVirus
February 2010 - Fake Security Center message for AntiVirus Plus
February 2010 - Fake Warnings
February 2010 - Fake Critical Updates
December 2009 - AntiMalware Scan
December 2009 - AntiMalware Advert
December 2009 - AntiMalware Network Alert
December 2009 - AntiMalware fake message
December 2009 - AntiMalware Icons & Balloon Message - This customer was running McAfee and got infected
October 2009 - SecurityTool Scan
October 2009 - SecurityTool Icon & Balloon Message - This customer was running Norton 360 and got infected
July 2009 - Generic looking program - Pretends to scan your computer
July 2009 - Detected Threats - notice the spelling mistake on 'prevent' in the yellow balloon
July 2009 - Fake windows balloon message
June 2009 - Fake windows security message - norton was up to date
June 2009 - Fake windows security message - norton running
June 2009 - Fake win32 worm message
May 2009 - Looks just like the real AVG antivirus program
May 2009 - Fake windows security message - while McAfee was running
TO THE TOP
April 2009 - Yellow bar trying to infect a computer - norton 360 was running and up to date
April 2009 - Pretends to scan when you turn on your computer and intends to make you scared
March 2009 - This one was shown as the wallpaper on the desktop. With a Flashing Warning Message
March 2009 - A360 - Pretends to scan and always finds bad things
February 2009
September 2008
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