System Protector is yet another rogue anti-virus program. It comes with the normal pretty homepage with some fake press reviews, etc.
The recent extensive media coverage of the Conficker worm (see previous blog post) has also attracted the creators of rogue anti-malware software. Pages that claim to show how to get rid of this pest have been hijacked by fake scanners that promote rogue software. Another tactic has been to create pages that offer a product, claiming it will remove Conficker. An example is shown below.
Antispyware Pro 2009 is a new rogue anti-spyware application. It will give exaggerated threat reports on the compromised computer then ask the user to purchase a registered version to remove threats which don't exist.
Today a new rogue was discovered called Spyware Fighter. It is following the normal patterns with false detections and trying to scare the user into buying a license to clean them.
Further it has the classic user friendly home page available under a few similar named domains.
SpywareFighter was added to detection in release 0146.0017.
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