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| 27 Feb 2010 | #1 |
| | VirusTotal Brand Abused to Push Scareware. Quote: The name of the popular file analysis service VirusTotal is being abused by cyber-crooks to infect users with scareware. A recent forum spam campaign tries to trick people into visiting a malicious website hosted at virus-total.in. Security researchers from Sophos reported a spam run promoting the rogue virus-total domain, as a private message on a forum. The message employs scare tactics in order to frighten users into visiting the scareware-pushing website. VirusTotal Brand Abused to Push Scareware - If it doesn't end in .com don't trust it - Softpedia |
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| 27 Feb 2010 | #2 |
| | Quote: This statement comes at a time when ISPs have announced initiatives to identify compromised computers on their networks and take proactive measures to clean them. |
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