|
WARNING!
Banking online is a wonderful
thing HOWEVER be aware of the following!
I've encountered a virus this week
that only attacks financial institution log in web pages!
The two that were affected on my clients machine were Bank
of America and Chase but further research has indicted that
it could be ANY of that type of website.
Malwarebytes took it out after
updating the program! This tells me that the virus is
relatively new.
If the web page you use to sign into a
bank or financial institution changes BEFORE you put in any
information PLEASE call the company and make sure that it's
valid! They usually will know if there is a virus causing it
or if their webmasters need the information.
If you have this virus PLEASE run
Malwarebytes.
Click here to learn more
about this product.
To REPORT SCAMS, sign up for an email
alert or learn more about them, go to the FBI SITE!
CLICK HERE
Victims have lost more than $150 million falling for rogue
anti-virus schemes, the FBI says in a new warning.
For the first time, the FBI has issued a public warning
about the threat of rogue anti-virus software, which the
agency said has resulted in more than $150 million in losses
to victims.
In an intelligence note posted Friday on the website of the
Internet Crime Complaint Center, the FBI said users should
be on the lookout for pop-up
advertisements masking as legitimate-looking Antivirus
software,
known as "rogueware" or "scareware.
"Rogue anti-virus software typically is purveyed through
malicious advertisements, or "malvertisements,"
on trusted websites.
When viewed or clicked, the ads lead users to sites that
claim their computer is infected and, to resolve the issue,
they should buy an anti-virus product, which turns out to be
fake. In other instances, the ads try to install trojans
onto the victim's PC. Criminals also have orchestrated the
attack by "poisoning" search results, so that when a user
searches for a popular term, he or she is led to a website
site hosting the bogus software.
"The scareware is intimidating to most users and extremely
aggressive in its attempt to lure the user into purchasing
the rogue software that will allegedly remove the viruses
from their computer," the FBI alert said. "Once the pop-up
appears, it cannot be easily closed.
The FBI said should always research the names of security
software applications to ensure their legitimacy. A recently
released report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group, which
analyzed internet fraud trends for the first half of 2009,
found that the number of rogue Antivirus programs from
January to June surpassed the total for all of 2008.
In June, the final month of the study, there were 152,197
new strains.
“The primary reason for the creation of so many variants is
to avoid detection by legitimate anti-virus programs. The
use of behavioral analysis is of limited use in this type of
malware because the programs themselves do not act
maliciously on computers, other than displaying false
information."
So what DO you do?
The MOST important thing is
DO NOT PANIC!
Panic will cause problems not solve them.
DO NOT CLICK ON ANYTHING
until you’ve thought it through.
More than likely you will be viewing a web pages in your
BROWSER software when this happens. (Internet Explorer,
Mozilla Firefox etc.)
IMMEDIATELY CLOSE THE BROWSER with the X in the far, upper
right corner.
DO NOT CLICK ANYWHERE ON THE PAGE OR YOU MAY TURN OFF YOUR
PROTECTION & INSTALL THE VIRUS WITH YOUR BLESSING!
You may need to PRESS & HOLD CTRL + ALT then tap DELETE to
bring up the task manager to END TASK or REBOOT the pc to
sever the tie to the infected website.
THEN, run a FULL scan with your antivirus program manually
right away.
When you go back online DO NOT LOAD PREVIOUS SESSION if
asked. Click on GO TO HOME PAGE or you’ll go back to the
infected site and get the virus again!
If you are not sure what to do CALL YOUR COMPUTER GURU!
If you don't have a computer guru and you are in Eastern
Volusia County FL call Granny...386-424-6768. If you don't
call Granny, you'll pay too much!
GET MALWAREBYTES NOW!
|
Granny is uniquely qualified to help you with your computer needs.
