Adobe will publish security updates addressing a critical vulnerability in Reader & Acrobat (CVE-2010-2883) on 5th October 2010.
Facebook’s “Like” button – which gives users the ability to like comments, posts, links and pages – is one of the most popular features on the site. But for a long time, a huge number of people have been asking for the ability to give thumbs down as well – with a “Dislike” button – making it a prime target for scammers. The latest scam involves “the official dislike button”, which in actuality is a rogue application.
Just to be clear – there is currently no such thing as an official Dislike button.
Today at Lavasoft, we discovered a number of new clones from the XpAntispyware2010 family of rogue security software. The unique aspect of this family is the ability to randomly change its name. Lavasoft Malware Labs found 36 different names on three operating systems (Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7).
The links below lead to snapshots in the Lavasoft Rogue Gallery:
Windows XP
antispywarexp
antivirusxp
totalxpsecurity
xpdefender
xpdefenderpro
xpsecuritytool2010
xpsmartsecurity
xpsmartsecurity2010
xpantimalware
xpantimalware2010
xpsecurity
xpsecuritytool
CleanUpAntivirus is a new rogue anti-spyware application. It is a clone of the SmartVirusEliminator family.
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