We've warned you before about websites that misrepresent themselves as Lavasoft affiliates and sell copies of our software that are not legitimate or supported by our company. It’s come to our attention that a site we issued a past word of warning on, oemlib.com, is operating under a number of other domains, all with a similar appearance, including:

Oemdatabase.net
Oemcheapsoftware.com
Fullversiondownloads.net
Oem-apps.com
Oem-x.com

The nature of malware infections has changed during the past years. A long time ago, malware and viruses were spread in much less sophisticated ways. (1) Times are not the same anymore because malware authors constantly invent new intellectual ways to compromise machines.

While April 1 may have passed without the Conficker botnet activating an ‘armageddon-like’ payload, as some reports speculated, Conficker is still a threat that the world is watching.

Conficker is now not only making headlines for the malware’s latest actions and expectations, but it’s also making waves due to how computer users have responded to this threat and others like it.  

If you follow online security news, there’s little chance that you haven’t heard about Conficker – a new worm that has received extensive media coverage in the past weeks, due in part to Microsoft’s offer of a $250,000 bounty in return for information leading to the arrest of the malware’s perpetrators.

Those located in the US will likely have tax preparation on their minds in the coming weeks…and, likewise, that topic will also be of major interest to spammers and scammers looking to exploit the upcoming April 15 filing deadline. Recent reports are already confirming a rise in phishing messages purporting to come from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, aimed at tricking taxpayers into falling for a scam.