Fake antivirus ads appear on ICQ
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A Kaspersky researcher has discovered a fake antivirus warning linked to ads on ICQ, the instant-messaging program that is popular in Russia and Eastern Europe.
The ad that showed up in the ICQ window was for a women's clothing company called Charlotte Russe, and clicking on the ad directed to the company's website, said Roel Schouwenberg, a senior antivirus researcher at Moscow-based Kaspersky. Around the same time the ad was displayed, another pop-up appeared in a new browser from 'Antivirus8', which said that suspicious activity had been detected on the system. It then encouraged the user to download the program, which is not a legitimate antivirus product, Schouwenberg said.
The malware attack is interesting for several reasons. The rogue antivirus 'scareware' appears without the user doing anything that normally triggers such pop-ups, such as clicking on malicious links in search results, he said. The attack also does not appear to have an exploit included in it; just the social-engineering aspect in which the user is lured into downloading supposed antivirus protection that is totally unnecessary, he added.
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"In April 2010, AOL sold ICQ to Mail.ru Group for $187.5 million." -Wikipedia
I have had that one too!!!
It is kind of funny, since I don't have a "C" drive either.
Mine are referred to as:
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
Then, if one were to incorporate "WindoZE" `drive letter` assumptions for partitions, I guess the 15 partitions that exist on /dev/sda would range from C to Q, the 14 partitions on /dev/sdb would range from R to Z, and need a few more letters!!!! Micro$oft should finally see the light , and get rid of those dammed drive letters. (I doubt that will ever happen.)
And, finally, for my `snark of the day`, a co-worker once asked me how I keep the direction of the "slashes" in path names 'straight'. I replied that it is simple, "Microsoft is backwards ."
p
ofuBANr/8gAA
mail.ru/
2147484672
3287202560
30278015
3534327456
30131164
*
My antivirus software identifies spyware called usernameCookie.mail and deletes the cookie.
I manually deleted the username@mail[1].txt from the Cookies directory. But when I opened the "Recycle Bin" I see no file there, even though the "Recycle Bin" icon shows there is a file present. I went to empty the "Recycle Bin", and I get the "Confirm File Delete" dialog box which says: "Are you sure you want to delete 'WINDOWS'?
I am not making this up, now I am stuck as to what to do, since it seems I should no longer empty my "Recycle Bin".
There is something to this, there is some spyware/virus being placed by ICQ. I will no longer use ICQ, the people at mail.ru suck big time for placing spyware in ICQ.
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