Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Fake Scanner Site

Fake scanner site is a website, which imitates computer scanning process and displays fake scanning results stating that computer is infected with viruses and/or spyware. Such sites try to scare the user and trick it into purchasing of fake antispyware or antivirus products. Some of fake scanner sites may even secrtly install malware into your computer exploiting browser's security flaws.

Usually, fake scanner site is silently installed in the web browser as a homepage or a Browser Helper Object (BHO) by the trojan program. There are so called Homepage hijackers, Browser hijackers or Search hijackers.

Below is a list of such fraudulent sites, wich will be regularly updated:

protectprivacy18.com
pcantimalwaresolution.com
spywareremover2009plus.com
premiumantiviruspccheck.com
lite-anti-virus-scan.com
stabilitytraceonline.com
av1-scanner.info
liteantivirusproscanner.com
antimalwareonlinescan.com
ie-security.com
antimalwareonlinescan.com
xp-police-av.com
antimalware-online-scanner.com
antimalwareinternetscanner.com
winiguard.org
internetsafetyread.com
antimalware-scanner.com
sg9scanner.com
bestantispywaresecurityscan.com
safetyread.com
webioscan.com
scan4ever.com
pcsecurityscanner.com
netsecurityonline.com
winiguard.net
scan.freescanner-proas2009.com
onlinesecurity-scanner.com
protectionfastscanner.com
defender-review.com
pro-scanner-online.com
anti-virusquickscan.com
anti-virusproscan.com
Anti-virus-defence.com
allinone-scanner.com
virusresponse2009.com
s-avirus2009.com
internet-antivirus-pro.com
pcprivacycleanerpro.com
antispyware-pro-xp.com
antispyware-review.biz
total-secure2009.com
virusremover2008.com
scanner.msscanner.com
pcprivacycleanerpro.com
checksystem-online.com
smartantivirus-2009-buy.com
antispydeluxe.com
scanner.vav-x-scanner.com
pc-security-updates.com
antispyware-review.info
virusremover2008.com
registrydefender.com
windowsscanner-freever.com
avxp-2008.net
asiuoqgusdbaksd.com
antivirusdoc.net


Please do not visit these fake scanner sites. If you notice that one of these sites is installed as a homepage at your web browser without your knowlege, you must check your computer with antivirus or antispyware software immediately.

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