Haiti Earthquake: Another Rogue Rides the News
January 14th, 2010 admin
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A day after the disaster that struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti, Rogue perpetrators have once again been busy with their SEO poisoning schemes. Searching for terms related to this earthquake leads to a website that installs a Rogue into the system. It happens when an unsuspecting user searches for Haiti Earthquake details. Happily clicking the link leads to this page: Then this… And this… Wait! What’s that? F-Secure ?!? Nice try… We definitely don’t support this malware. After dragging the F-Secure name to its wares&hellip
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