Products of anti-malware (antivirus) fake / bogus is the type of malware that development is very fast. Sunbelt Software website recorded more than 760 anti-malware have been discovered over the last four years.
We will have no trouble recognizing the products antivirus / antispyware fake it, because they generally have names that seem 'wow', such as: "CoreGuard Antivirus 2009," "Malware Catcher 2009," and "Fast Antivirus 2009."
Usually we get this fake antivirus through direct download or a 'passenger' in another program and once it is in our computer then the task now is to inform the victim that his computer had been infected by the virus. The victim will get a pop up window appears on the computer screen with a message like: "YOUR COMPUTER IS Infected". This pop-up window also leads victims to scan the computer to ensure no malware / viruses that infect, but it also will be guided to buy their antivirus product by pointing to one website link.
Do not worry because the creator of this fake antivirus products simply scare it. If the victim to meet the wishes of the fake antivirus makers then surely he bought just a waste product - not a real antivirus. And what's worse is when the victim decided to buy the fake antivirus by using a credit card then the credit card information he could sell on the black market internet.
Create a home computer users may be somewhat difficult to tell which antivirus antivirus genuine and which fake.
Actually we do not find it difficult to tell which antivirus antivirus genuine and which false, 3 steps below to give us the knowledge to distinguish it.
1. Knowing the list of fake antivirus
One website that we can make to find information about a fake antivirus is http://rogueantispyware.blogspot.com/. In this blog is explained with detailed lists of fake antivirus and an explanation.
2. Look through the websites that provide information about the official antivirus products
To determine whether an antivirus is really official or not then we can look for the manufacturers. Here is a list of antivirus products and their official company name is taken from the VirusTotal website.
- AhnLab (V3)
- Antiy Labs (Antiy-AVL)
- Aladdin (eSafe)
- ALWIL (Avast! Antivirus)
- Authentium (Command Antivirus)
- AVG Technologies (AVG)
- Avira (AntiVir)
- Cat Computer Services (Quick Heal)
- ClamAV (ClamAV)
- Comodo (Comodo)
- CA Inc.. (Vet)
- Doctor Web, Ltd.. (DrWeb)
- EMSI Software GmbH (a-squared)
- Eset Software (ESET NOD32)
- Fortinet (Fortinet)
- FRISK Software (F-Prot)
- F-Secure (F-Secure)
- G DATA Software (GData)
- Hacksoft (The Hacker)
- Hauri (ViRobot)
- Ikarus Software (Ikarus)
- INCA Internet (nProtect)
- K7 Computing (K7AntiVirus)
- Kaspersky Lab (AVP)
- McAfee (VirusScan)
- Microsoft (Malware Protection)
- Norman (Norman Antivirus)
- Panda Security (Panda Platinum)
- PC Tools (PCTools)
- Prevx (Prevx1)
- Rising Antivirus (Rising)
- Secure Computing (SecureWeb)
- BitDefender GmbH (BitDefender)
- Sophos (SAV)
- Sunbelt Software (Antivirus)
- Symantec (Norton Antivirus)
- VirusBlokAda (VBA32)
- Trend Micro (TrendMicro)
- VirusBuster (VirusBuster)
In addition, there are specialized companies that provide certification of antivirus products, such as http://www.westcoastlabs.org/. We can find the certificate of antivirus makers in there.
3. Looking for information on the Internet
This method is a conventional but effective way to find an antivirus product is genuine or fake. Simply type in fake antivirus products that make us hesitate, for example: "Malware Catcher 2009" and soon will come a lot of information about this fake antivirus.
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