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2. Scareware - Wikipedia

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   Scareware is a form of malware which uses social engineering to cause shock, anxiety, or the perception of a threat in order to manipulate users into buying unwanted software [ 1] (or products). Scareware is part of a class of malicious software that includes rogue security software, ransomware and other scam software that tricks users into ...

3. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   Zeus is a Trojan horse malware package that runs on versions of Microsoft Windows. It is often used to steal banking information by man-in-the-browser keystroke logging and form grabbing. [ 1] Zeus is spread mainly through drive-by downloads and phishing schemes. First identified in July 2007 when it was used to steal information from the ...

4. Rogue security software - Wikipedia

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   Rogue security software. Rogue security software is a form of malicious software and internet fraud that misleads users into believing there is a virus on their computer and aims to convince them to pay for a fake malware removal tool that actually installs malware on their computer. [1] It is a form of scareware that manipulates users through ...

5. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   New variants attack mobile phone banking information. [67] Anti-Spyware 2011, a Trojan horse that attacks Windows 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7, posing as an anti-spyware program. It disables security-related processes of anti-virus programs, while also blocking access to the Internet, which prevents updates. [68]

6. SpySheriff - Wikipedia

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   SpySheriff[ a] (also known as BraveSentry 2.0 among other names) is malware that disguises itself as anti-spyware software. It attempts to mislead the user with false security alerts, threatening them into buying the program. [ 4] Like other rogue antiviruses, after producing a list of false threats, it prompts the user to pay to remove them.

7. Get started with your Norton Security Online by AOL ...

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   Web protection. • Antivirus protection - Protection against viruses, spyware, malware, and other online attacks. • Online protection - Advanced security protects your private and financial information when you go online. • Password Manager - Encrypts and stores your log-in info online vault and auto-fills your usernames and passwords.

8. Blaster (computer worm) - Wikipedia

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   Blaster (also known as Lovsan, Lovesan, or MSBlast) was a computer worm that spread on computers running operating systems Windows XP and Windows 2000 during August 2003. [ 1] The worm was first noticed and started spreading on August 11, 2003. The rate that it spread increased until the number of infections peaked on August 13, 2003.

9. Flame (malware) - Wikipedia

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   Flame (a.k.a. Da Flame) was identified in May 2012 by the MAHER Center of the Iranian National CERT, Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab (Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics when Kaspersky Lab was asked by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union to investigate reports of a virus affecting Iranian Oil Ministry ...