New Scareware Displays Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alerts

[malexous]

A new scareware threat is using some very convincing tricks, which include displaying fake Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) alerts.
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New Scareware Displays Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alerts - Softpedia

 

[hackerman1]

hi !

"old news"....

Borg 386 posted about it 2 weeks ago: http://www.sevenforums.com/system-security/107539-dont-fooled-fake-mse.html

in that thread Corrine mentioned her post: Beware: Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Rogue ~ Security Garden

which included a link to the "original" story: Remove the Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alert Trojan and AntiSpySafeguard

 

[marsmimar]

A new scareware threat is using some very convincing tricks, which include displaying fake Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) alerts.

New Scareware Displays Fake Microsoft Security Essentials Alerts - Softpedia

Certainly doesn't hurt to remind folks that MSE is popular enough now for the bad guys to try to imitate it. In fact, I missed the first notice. Thanks for posting.