moonpuppy
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Glen Burnie, MD
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Vundo / Antispyware xp 2008 After seeing this on a few systems (including one at work) it got me thinking.
They (Antispyware XP 2008) ask you to pay $50 for their program. What happens after that? Does it clean your system of all other problems (except theirs of course)? Does it do anything after you pay the $50? Do they send you a code when you do pay up?
If they do send you a code, wouldn't it be a matter of trying to figure out how to trick it into shutting itself off?
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Cudni
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Someshire
| Re: Vundo / Antispyware xp 2008 said by moonpuppy  : Does it do anything after you pay the $50? It comes up with a message "Guess what we got that you don't." namely the US$50
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MagnusM
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| Nothing happens. Sometimes people don't even get a registration code. Their "signature database" file is 2KB in size and doesn't detect or remove a thing.
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jabarnut
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join:2005-01-22
Galaxy M31
3 edits | said by moonpuppy :...They (Antispyware XP 2008) ask you to pay $50 for their program. What happens after that? ... Heh....if anyone were silly enough to actually give them Credit Card or Bank account info, I imagine a lot would happen after that. 
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| moonpuppy
join:2000-08-21
Glen Burnie, MD
·Verizon Online DSL
| Re: Vundo / Antispyware xp 2008 Did a search for it and I must have missed it.
The interesting thing to me is how this scam works over many countries. Server in Singappore, bank in Barbados, registry in the Ukraine, etc.
Wonder why certain things like cancelling the domain registration, shutting down the account on the server or cealing with the bank in question can't be done to deal with these idiots. | |
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roc5955
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join:2005-11-26
Rosendale, NY
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| This is one of the best reads I have seen on the Register in a long time. It gives you real insight as to the evil genius of the people who came up with this malware scam.
I have seen this, and the other strains of this malware here at work about 30 times in the past 3 months. This is even after we sent out an e-mail telling the users to not click, or open stuff that they don't know where it is coming from.
One person even gave them the credit card info, and what did he get? More malware. His PC was so infected, that I had to wipe it. After several attempts to clean using many types of software, the darn thing kept getting re-infected. I used Malwarebytes Anti-malware, McAffee AV, Hijack This!, Adaware, Spybot S & D, and others. Finally, I gave up, and just reloaded the image of the thing, that we create whenever we deploy a new PC.
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Jeffrey
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join:2002-12-24
Dix Hills,NY
clubs: | I have seen this on a lot of computer's lately that I've been asked to look at. As others have suggested, read that 'anatomy of a malware scam"--it's an excellent read. | |
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