* Posts by Kell

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Anatomy of a malware scam

Kell
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Vista Antivirus 2008

Good article.

This week my brother was led to install a similar malware but this was called Vista Antivirus 2008 instead of XP. This is very much the same as described in the article.

I do not know if it runs well in Vista, but it did a pretty good job in the XP machine.

It also blocked various directories, such as regedit, and removed various options from the start menu, such as the run, but we could still get to cmd from through the browser.

My friend had avast installed and it detected and deleted the files, it also made the changes in the registry but we could not remove it from the control panel.