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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Rogue Security Applications Being Pushed On Myspace

Colour me curious.

The latest piece of garbage floating around Myspace - full writeup here - is bad enough. Fake Windows update box overlaid on random profiles, that takes you to a hijack involving rogue antispyware cleaners.


However.

Given that recently Zango filed legal thingies against PC Tools and Kaspersky for rating / classification stuff with regards their Adware as "elevated, malicious risks" - I do wonder.

What will they do here, where a rogue antispyware application is placing what are effectively dummy files pretending to be from 180 Solutions (amongst others) onto PCs so their rogue cleaner can "detect" them in order to have the hapless end-user pay to "remove" them?

Could Zango be about to take a rogue antispyware vendor to task? That would be pretty interesting...

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