Rogue Av Masquerades As A Firefox/flash Update


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Rogue Av Masquerades As A Firefox/flash Update

06 August 2010

It seems that rogue peddlers have gotten tired of their old tricks in pushing rogueware into the user's system. It used to be a fake scanning page, that leads to a warning, then a fake AV.

Now, it comes as the Firefox "Just Updated" page. You know that page that instantaneously appears right after you update your Firefox browser? And you open Firefox for the first time? Just like that. But with a catch of course. There is a message telling the user than even if their Firefox got updated, their Adobe Flash Player isn't. So they still have to update. Pretty helpful !!

Also screenshots here: http://www.f-secure....s/00001997.html

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