Two New Roguewares: LinkSafeness and Control Center

I think many of you have already been in contact and know what a rogueware is. I want to tell you that recently two new roguewares which seem to be rather dangerous have emerged.

The first one is LinkSafeness. Don’t be fooled! It doesn’t have anything in common with safety. You’d sleep more calmly at night if you removed it as soon as you notice this maliciuos software (I have found this removal info).

And the second scareware is Control Center. A quite striking fact about the fake application is that “Although Control Center uses some details from the Microsoft design in order to get trust and look more legitimate, it also employs fake alerts, such as “Database update error!” and “License error!” in order to scare people, and make you believe that the only way for the viruses to be removed is pay money and purchase the software” (taken from pc1news site). Don’t forget that it’s worth nothing. Delete it or you are in danger.

Beware of BlockWatcher!

Yes, this is definetely the new rogueware from the same well-known Winisoft family. This time they created a new name for the fake anti-spyware application, BLOCKWATCHER.

Although the title seems to be trustable, you shouldn’t ever believe in this malicious software. BlockWatcher is designed to trick you and take your moeny away.

Personally, I sincerely recommend you to throw this threat into a recycle bin. Just don’t forget to remove ALL THESE FILES related to the rogueware.

SystemVeteran is the Worst Doctor Ever

Just a very short note on a huge threat which is waiting for you over the corner.

If you have SystemVeteran on your computer, which warns you that there are a bunch of infections on it, beware that the only infection here is SystemVeteran itself. It will slow the performance of your PC, create additional shortcuts on the desktop, change the home page to some maliciuos one, as well as start annoying you with fake pop-up messages.

In order to live a happy life, remove the malware ASAP (click here for the instructions how to do that). Good luck fighting the evil!

Don’t Have AntiAID on Your PC!

Once again, my dear readers, I’d like to draw your attention to fake security programs. Today I’ve chosen to talk about a rogueware with a rather funny name – AntiAID. And the name itself suggests, well at least to me, that the program is somehow NOT related to real and legitimate security application. well, I mean, they could at least call it ProAid or something like that; but definitely not AntiAID.

As Aurelija from pc1news.com states “Once on the system, it will perform a scan of your computer system and immediately start displaying fake warning messages that your system is infected with hundreds of parasites.”

After that you will just asked to purchase a full version of AntiAID and remove all the terrible parasites from your computer. However, this program will never do that! It will never remove neither real, nor fake threats from our PCs.

Don’t allow cyber criminals to trick you! Don’t give them your money!

BlockProtector Can’t Protect Our PCs

BlockProtector is the other fake security program I woul like to talk about. I’ve found that it comes from a large so-called rogueware family called WiniSoft. Rather funny name, isn’t it?.. The name WiniSoft is known to be related to many similar rogues. BlockWatcher, ShieldSafeness, BlockScanner, SoftSafeness, SoftVeteran… These are just a few from this family. All in all there are more than 35 similar programs. And the only aim of all of them is to steal your money. Therefore, be very cautious!

Here is a screenshot of BlockProtector (taken from www.pc1news.com):

Beware MaCatte Antivirus 2009! It’s a Rogue!

Hey,

Today I’d just to warn you against MaCatte Antivirus 2009. You know, it really resembles McAfee. Its name and its website… They’re really trying to act they are a part of McAfee. But THEY ARE not! Their website is very familiar to the website of McAfee. And this name… MaCatte. It’s very easy to get mistaken and read it as McAfee if you’re not attentive enough.

Therefore, stay extremely alert. Don’t be tricked and don’t give your money to these bastards!

Windows Enterprise Suite Is Sneaking Your Way!

Hey everybody! I’ve decided to inform you about the constantly increasing attacks of rogue anti-spyware programs. These fake applications, to my mind, is a serious computer security issue as the developers of these programs are doing their best in order to trick as many unaware pc users as possible.

Why I’ve chosen to start with Windows Enterprise Suite? Well, the answer is very simple. I’ve somehow managed to get to their website. Luckily, I was clever enough not to click on the “download” link. Something mysterious stopped me from doing that Instead of downloading the program, I decided to make a quick research and googled this name. It then became clear that the program is nothing more but just another variant of rogueware. Here is a rather useful research of Windows Enterprise Suite performed by Aurelija from pc1news.com.

All I can say is that you should stay extremely alert. Don’t allow these evil criminals to trick. They only want your money. Do you want to fulfill their wish? Of course not! So be careful.

The Estonia Attacks

The Estonia Attacks

Hey and welcome back to my wonderful and special blog. I am here today to tell you guys about the Estonia cyber attacks.
Well if you can remember it was in 2007 and it was in April.These cyber attacks were massive and they attacked the major websites pertaining to various big organizations.They reached news headlines all over the globe when the attacks occured.

These attacks had huge effects on the Estonian government and political websites.There are many theories of these attacks and one of these theories is about a twenty year old student.The attacks that occured were a DDos attack so they say,and we all know what the goal of an attack like this is.Basically a DDos attack is to take over and actually flood an entire network as well as the resources of a server this is all extremely hardcore.

These attacks have been studied intensely and many people have many different opinions with regard to these massive cyber attacks.These cyber attacks illustrate how big a cyber attack can be and they show the extent of the damage that can actually occur.The problem with these attacks is that it remains a mystery due to the factor that there is no direct evident of any form of kind and without evidence not much can happen. 

Botnets attack routers…..

Hey guys so its me again and check this out:

“Botnets changed tactics, an advanced new virus was deployed, and specific network routers were targeted for attack.”

Botnets attack routers and inclusive of these are network routers.Did you know that Botnets can exist that consist mainly of routers? It exists, although they are not very common. There is a specific Botnet which goes by the name of Psybot.Pyschbot seems to specialise in attacking small home network routers that run a Linux for MIPS CPUS.

According to Wikipedia Botnet be described as:”Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is often associated with malicious software but it can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software. While the term “botnet” can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bots, this word is generally used to refer to a collection of compromised computers (called Zombie computers) running software, usually installed via worms, Trojan horses, or backdoors, under a common command-and-control infrastructure.”

How does a Network attack occur? Well it is actually quite fascinating, due to many facets. When an attacker makes the decision to target a particular organization, they have two choices. Either they could use the emails of employees or go through the gateway. It is actually easy to location the specific IP address due to the factor that most companies host their email servers on the company network. The attacker is then able to pull off the rest of the attack quite simply and effectively.

DDoS attacks are constantly becoming a bigger issue in the world today, due to the factor that some of the motivations of the attackers are changing.DDos Attacks that are occurring are being actively launched via Botnets.The damage that is caused to these victims are extremely huge. The Cyber attacks On Estonian Government websites brought this method of attack to our attention. These Botnets were literally used to launch these attacks against the routers of ISPs which were hosting the Estonian government sites, as well as their DNS system servers.

Lets get to the bottom of Botnets.

Okay so here I am back again, and today I will be getting to the bottom of Botnets. These stupid or rather clever things are causing chaos on our online world as we know it.

Botnets as they currently stand are a huge threat to our online world today. Not only that but Botnets can be found anywhere and this is extremely alarming.Botnets can be on a home computer or a company computer or even a government computer.All that is needed for a Botnet to breathe and live is Internet and a computer.

Have you heard about the Botnet herder? If not let me enlighten you, a Botnet herder or Botnet creator can do so many things with the inclusion of controlling armies of infected computers.This is obviously very scary and is not even the worst aspect.The worst aspect is that people whose machines are being used for Botnets, are not even aware of it.So basically if your computer is being used,you will have no knowledge of this and be completely oblivious to this factor.

According to Wikipedia a Botnet may be described as:“Botnet is a jargon term for a collection of software robots, or bots, that run autonomously and automatically. The term is often associated with malicious software but it can also refer to the network of computers using distributed computing software.While the term “botnet” can be used to refer to any group of bots, such as IRC bots, this word is generally used to refer to a collection of compromised computers (called Zombie computers) running software, usually installed via worms, Trojan horses, or backdoors, under a common command-and-control infrastructure.”

You get different types of Botnets as well as different attacks. It is vital to use proper computer security protection mechanisms as they may help prevent Botnets.The people who create Botnets are very clever so you need to be warned.They know the” ins and outs” of the entire computer world and know exactly what they need to do to find a vulnerability in your system.

So beware of the Botnets