ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Very well written (and documented) article on The Register, about malware that comes disguised as "XP Antivirus" and/or "XP Security".http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/anatomy_of_a_hack/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Interesting, Pat.I heard of this thing the other day from a not very computer savvy friend (who has one of my computers) who phoned me saying he had a popup telling him about XP Antivirus 2008 but was very suspicious of it as it used the blue XP theme whereas the computer was set by me, at his request, to have the silver theme as my machines are.My advice was to restore from Acronis to save any messing around trying to remove the thing from his current system. He did this and all is OK.(N.B. I badger all buyers of my computers to keep a regular full system backup and to do regular anti-malware checks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Very interesting. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dencandy Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 That's a real eye-opener Pat W, thanks for the link. :0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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