Three members of the group who allegedly behind the widely-spread Mariposa botnet were captured last week by the spanish police. Other suspects are still at-large and believe to be somewhere in South America. Read more »

Security software developer McAfee is investigating the recent cyber attack it calls “Aurora” that has hit Google Services and other companies. “Aurora” will took advantage of the vulnerability in several versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows. Read more »

Virus Protector (alias VirusProtector) is another future rogue security program that was created in the tradition of LinkSafeness. It was actually on the same website that both fake antivirus was hosted. Virus Protector Trojan will soon be spreading a copy of this unwanted program on the same purpose of misleading computer users and get them attracted to buy the registered version of Virus Protector. On their aim for innocent users to purchase the Virus Protector registration key and activation code, it will display numerous alerts and warning messages on the infected computer. Read more »

A website that review domains both new and old found this W-Optimizer websites that is aiming to launch and spread a copy of the said rogue program. It was also learned that this is a successor to the previously infamous Wind Optimizer. W-Optimizer will be promoted as a legit Windows utility program to accellerate the computer, fixes hard drive problems, defragments and rearrange files, removes unwanted Internet cookies, fixes Windows registry and so on.

Here is a screenshot of how W-Optimizer website looks like:

Smooth Defender 2009 promises to be a “New Generation of Anti-Spyware Software” and will stop spyware from invading privacy and reducing PC performance. Before it lunches and spread the programs, security experts already detected the malicious websites from where the Smooth Defender 2009 virus will be originated. Read more »

ClearWay Shield will be another harmful rogue security program to invade computer users in the coming days. ClearWay Shield presence on computer has not been observed at the time of this writing. It was only its website clearwayshield.com that was seen and categorized as another one to spread this rogue program. Read more »

Top anti-malware program developer MalwareBytes’ reported that a company called IOBit based in China is using their database and intellectual property on their programs. MalwareBytes’ caught the said operation when they added a fake definition on their database and few weeks later IOBit programs also detecting the same. Read more »

We first posted about the Security Tool virus on this website last September 23,2009. Since then we have received numerous inquiries from computer users who got infected with this rogue program. A Security Tool virus removal is requested. Some relies on the Internet and search for the removal. Little did they know that one wrong click from the search results will give them another headache. Read more »