Rogue Anti-spyware Program is a Spyware by Itself!

Released by: Manish Katara

Can you imagine a situation where an armed guard at a bank, himself started looting the bank?

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Update Date: 1/20/2006 12:14:54 PM

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Descrption:
Can you imagine a situation where an armed guard at a bank, himself started looting the bank? Unbelievably ironical it may sound, but that’s precisely the story with many of the anti-spyware products that mushroom in the market every passing day. SpyAxe is a purportedly anti-spyware program that kills spyware found on your computer. It’s been doing rounds since the first week of December 2005 when it was spreading at a rate 2500 PCs per hour, with a sure chance of much faster spread rate by now.

SpyAxe works through a known trojan horse to display annoying popup windows. The alerts warn the user that user’s pc is affected with spyware, prompting you to click on the same. If you click on the popup it starts downloading the malware from www.spyaxe.com. Don’t be misguided by the high-profile and stylish marketing methods of SpyAxe that claims itself to be a truly legitimate firm. For starters, it gives a false address for the company.

After SpyAxe is installed, it will conduct scans on the computer in a hogwash manner. SpyAxe can’t be uninstalled from the Add/Remove Programs list of Windows. This tool makes high use of false positives, even detecting a registry key that belongs to the Windows operating system. SpyAxe is installed by the trojan horses Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob, ZToolbar and Trojan.Puper.

A new program called SpywareStrike is another addition to this disguised malice. This one charges you $49.99 to invade your PC and pester your life! SpywareStrike came into the market On December 20, 2005, located at a URL of the same name. The marketing is very much identical to that of SpyAxe, with a very similar logo. SpywareStrike is installed via trojan horse, direct download from the site, or comes from a left over after the manual disabling of SpyAxe!

The best way to combat this method of intrusion is not to get lured by the flashy ads of these programs that promises you moon with their clever marketing tricks. One should stick to security software of established and reputable Security Solution Providers. MicroWorld products eScan and MailScan are highly powerful and extremely effective against spywares and adwares with their very large database of such malice. Apart from getting updated every hour, it blocks all programs that looks suspicious in its purpose, while informing you of the same. MicroWorld advises its users to update their software regularly to thwart threats of this nature. Incase one has already downloaded these harmful programs, the MWAV toolkit can be used to detect and remove these deceitful malware.

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