List of fake Antivirus Software

Mar 13th, 2010 | Category: Security

McAfee AV have predicted that the 400 percent increase in rogues (also called “scareware”) they saw in 2009 will continue this year. The loss to victims will be on the order of $300 million they also estimated.

Rogues are thieving malicious programs that pretend to be legitimate anti-malcode products. They are real money makers for organized and disorganized criminals who work through the Internet.

The scammers behind the rogues often distribute them by using botnets to send vast amounts of spam, advertising a variety of products. When a victim clicks on a link in the spam message, he’s taken to a malicious web site that pops up a window in his browser telling him in the most frightening terms possible that his machine is infected. The pop-up window also conveniently offers to download a product to clean his infected machine for a variety of prices, some as high as $99.99. If the victim bites on the offer, he purchases a piece of useless software that does nothing. Obviously, if you run across one, don’t buy it.

Here is a list of the latest scareware with screenshots.

CleanUp Antivirus

CleanUp Antivirus is a phony antivirus software, designed to infected PC after PC and at the same time rip people off.
Dr Guard

Dr Guard is another nasty rogue security program that is infecting numerous PC’s across the interwebs. Dr Guard is made to look like legit security software, but is in fact a nasty PC infection.
Antimalware Defender

Antimalware Defender is made to look like a legit Windows security program. It will scan the computer and display numerous infections, which are fake, shown only to scare people into buying the software to remove the supposed infections.
XP Guardian 2010
XP Internet Security
Antivirus XP 2010
XP Antivirus Pro 2010
Security Antivirus
Advanced Defender
My Security Wall