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Uploaded by on Dec 5, 2008

Experts at Sophos demonstrate how hackers are planting bogus anti-virus software on websites, in the hope of scaring people into handing over their credit card details.

Learn more about internet threats at http://www.sophos.com

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  • My personal favourite detection was "Fake.Alert.Not.A.Virus.Win32"

  • What I particularly love about this kind of malware is how it "scans"all those files on my machine. .dll this, .exe that. Never mind that none of those files is actually present on my Debian machine.

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  • I also love how he's using Linux; Notice how the icons look on the desktop and notice how the wallpaper says KDE. In 2008, KDE wasn't available for Windows.

  • and now he got fake virus that he couldnt remove it, how sad

  • iv had scarware befor and i fell for it.... that was 2 years ago and thankfully i have a mac now!

  • I was the 2,000th viewer!! :D

  • @Mandaramaster if ur using vista or 7, using UAC is the best

  • @tailsdollthefirst  i did it it worked !! thank you now to install a password so people don go on it :D

  • @Mandaramaster

    format it.. maybe

  • someone in my famillie was stupid and downloaded this virus on to my other pc :( does anyone know how to REMOVE IT ? it blocks sies like antimalwarebyte and starts my PC in safe mode is there a way to reset hard drive ?? help please :(

  • It just quits the Internet Explorer process, so yes.

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