Microsoft Malware Protection Center

Threat Research & Response Blog

August, 2009

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  • Microsoft Malware Protection Center

    MSRT August Top Detection Reports

    This month the MMPC added a new threat family, Win32/FakeRean , to the MSRT. You can refer to Hamish’s blog post, “ Win32/FakeRean and MSRT ” for more details on this fake, or rogue, security software. As of August 24, the MSRT had cleaned FakeRean from...
  • Microsoft Malware Protection Center

    Winwebsec on YouTube

    In a previous blog, you may have read about rogues using a fake YouTube page to entice users into downloading and installing a rogue security trojan. We are now showing you the ‘real deal’. We discovered a page (there are probably more) within the real...
  • Microsoft Malware Protection Center

    Win32/FakeRean and MSRT

    This month we added another rogue to the MSRT family list - Win32/FakeRean . Win32/FakeRean is generally very similar to Win32/InternetAntivirus and Win32/FakeXPA , which we continue to see in large numbers each month. Following the fashion, Win32/FakeRean...
  • Microsoft Malware Protection Center

    Password Stealers are Top Threats in China and Brazil

    On July 14, the MMPC added another fake security software program (rogue), Win32/FakeSpyPro, to the MSRT release. As of July 29, MSRT removal of FakeSpyPro had been reported from 187,258 machines worldwide. Rogues continue to be disruptive worldwide....
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