Articles in Security section

Windows Safety Checkpoint. How to steal money by being fake safety checker

Friday, April 27th, 2012
 

Windows Safety Checkpoint is the name change for the fakeVimes parasite. The last one, which came yesterday, they called Windows Premium Guard, this time they launched Safety Checkpoint. as all fakeVimes parasite this infection will stay active only for one day. When the Name is more attractive and looks more reliable these infections stay for several days. But that is not what [...]

 

Happili redirect virus and MAC Flashback malware

Friday, April 27th, 2012
 

It seems that the Secure Era for MACs has gone. Experts tell that recent Flashback Malware infection affected 1 of 5 MACs around the world. Happili redirect virus affects MACs too.. And unfortunately we dont have many tools developed to fix the viruses on the MAC. Happili redirect virus takes over you browser and redirects all searches [...]

 

Windows Premium Guard a bit smarter name to steal identity and money

Thursday, April 26th, 2012
 

Windows Premium Guard changes the yesterday infection Windows Efficiency Accelerator. From my point of view this name is a bit smarter. Maybe it will last a bit longer. Safety is a bigger priority than the efficiency for the users . If your computer is slow, you can wait and think do you really need to [...]

 

Windows Efficiency Accelerator changes the ridiculous Windows Performance Adviser

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
 

As every day for more that 2 months we have a new Name, but the same infection. Now it is called Windows Efficiency Accelerator. From the marketing point of view, this name is better that previous two names. So maybe this parasite will last a bit longer: not one, but several days. That is because [...]

 

Way to go, second this week goes Windows Performance Adviser

Tuesday, April 24th, 2012
 

I think Fakevimes developers reached their fantasy limit as names of the parasites became not as good as before. Now they called parasite Windows Performance Adviser, and its right after the parasite called Windows Pro Rescuer.. I think Windows Performance Advisor would sound better and more professional for Windows users. Anyway now we have Windows Performance Adviser which is the [...]