Barbara Hershey, Blogspot and fake anti-virus software

Paul Baccas of SophosLabs explores how fake anti-virus software designed to scare the unwary out of money is being planted into Google Search results behind pictures of celebrities.

In this example, he shows how a picture of actress Barbara Hershey - who appeared with Bette Midler in the tearjerker "Beaches" and starred in the Woody Allen movie "Hannah and Her Sisters" - disguises a website containing a malicious scareware program.

Learn more on the SophosLabs blog at http://sophos.com/security/blog/2009/01/2584.html

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• scareware
• barbara hershey
• sophos
• sophoslabs
• anti-virus
• virus
• beaches
• hannah and her sisters

[countryandpivot]

@ballader1 i know i tried it

[gamer3121]

omg I did the Barbara Hershey think and the virus thing popped up!

[ballader1]

SpyHunter is not a rogue, but it really sucks as an anti-spyware program

[Theraydude22]

Did it kill your PC?

[Theraydude22]

i found a virus in blogspot and it says virus in C , D and CD Drive? My hardrive is not c or d while theres no cd in my cd drive! How obvious that its fake!

[SpartanElite095]

There's over 300 rogue anti-malware programs out there.

[solarsystem195]

once i clicked a igamgen and it took me to porntube or red tube and it was stupid

[LoggotyroX32]

WARNING: Your computer is infected with dangerous Spyware! Please use our EPIC FAIL dumbass Trojan fake AntiSpyware to actually get the Spyware!

Some dangerous Rogue's: SpySheriff, Malware Bell, SpywareQuake, SpyDawn, VirusBurst, VirusHeat, SpyHunter, XP Antivirus 2008 and 2009, AntiVirGear and AdwareSheriff (The same program as SpySheriff only with different name).

[InsaneComedy]

Almost the exact same thing happened to me! D:

[shazthecrazy]

WARNING: Your computer is infected!

Please, use our special antimalware software. Click this baloon to fix the bla bla bla .........