New Malware Disguised as McAfee VirusScan Trial

What do you mean "Disguised" lol just kidding.... But nothing surprises me these days what the malware does. Next up they will hack dns and hack MS's auto update feature and push out hacked signed "updates" from fake microsoft update servers.

I'm sooooo sick of these people. I wish someone would just take 'em out and hang 'em.

I wonder if it is less of a system hog than the real one.

Who? The people who created it or the fools who fall for these scams?

Why would anyone download that?

Some people should really take a class on how to not do stupid things like this.

...sigh, you all know one of them, you fix their computer for them, put an AV on it - and they disable it - and call again.

Stop playing games. If a purveyor of malware is convicted (an individual is innocent until proven guilty), stick his head in a bucket and pull the trigger. GAME OVER.

Or my favorite trick, you spend hours working on a machine to repair it and "save my files!!!!" only to have them use system restore to undo your system tweaks and get reinfected with the updated versions of the crap you just spent forever removing.... It took me a few times but I figured out when your cleaning up some ones machine don't be nice and leave system restore alone "Nuke it from orbit".

This is not new.....my moms computer BSDed 4 months ago. I had to reinstall EVERYTHING and lost a lot of family pics. I suspected the free trial but could not prove it as im not a PC wiz. Great job in finding the bug who ever did.

you mean the people at Mcafee? LOL

nah that too harsh for the msafee people. now the people at symantec who keep making Norton well that's another story

Ug. I get tried of seeing thoses advertising bots, spamming the forums and article about a product or website. Tom's Cant you just add a security captcha's for the login process? Im more than sure that most of them are bots and not real people.
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That sounds familiar..... Have you been watching me?

I just had to do close to that only a few weeks ago. Although i never was able to fix it. Due to all the tools i would of needed to "fix the issue" was all packed away on a trailer that was already on the road to my new house ...... Out of all the time that a friends computer get's a virus when im still around, It had to be when i had really nothing to work with. Yeah had a 16GB flash drive with tools on it (Stuff from linux pendrive tools like avg anti-virus, few linux OS's, ect) that would of done the job but to bad the computer was old enough to not be able to run off a flash drive very well.

Sigh, Anyway yeah my friend computer had anti-virus but scene It had norton on it (which needs payed yearly), my friend didn't keep up with the payments and well, you get the idea.

I agree though, everytime there a problem (via virus situation) it always seams to happen to the same people for the same reason. Then the phone call call comes, you fix, then deja vu.

this goes to show that some people just should not own computers

somehow I think the virus does less harm then the actual McAfee product.

lol, I always though legit McAfee caused your system more grief than any virus it could protect you from. so telling it apart from this malware imposter may be difficult!

I suppose if it all of a sudden it isn't slowing your computer to a crawl and making everything painful, it must be the virus!

This is three years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and you are barely writing about it now?

Couldnt have been a hardware error... naw it must be that virus

My favorite is when you install AVG Free, set up the schedules for updates, and scans. Write a little blurb on how they should leave their computer on overnight at least once a week to let the software scan and protect their computer, and then a year later, they mysteriously get a virus, and when you look at the antivirus, the last update and scan was the one you did a year ago.
I charge extra for those people.

The last two lines clearly show who has major incentive behind designing these malware. The security companies themselves.

perfectly fine with me. more money comin my way. keep exposin the idiots malware producers! i'm makin bank off this.

Well isn't McAfee malware anyway? I mean it fills up RAM and eats up your CPU.

Just removed a pretend-anti-malware software from the computer of my friend's family. These things are really good at scaring people.

its nothing..dell shipped motherboards with malware

I was infected by a nasty virus a couple weeks ago. I visited gamecopyworld. Just browsed. Didn't download anything. Next thing I know, I'm getting UAC alerts for a program to install. I kept denying it access but it kept popping up and trapping my computer in the gray UAC void. I finally managed to get to the task manager and end a suspicious process and the UAC alerts finally stopped. But somehow a virus posing as an anti-malware scanner got installed anyways through my anti-virus guard and the UAC. Took me a whole day to finally clean it off my computer. I was close to just clean installing everything until I finally found the right combination of anti-virus tools to get rid of all traces of it.

This is getting bad and there seems no end in site. This does give a person a reason to give second thought to Apples approach to a closed system even though they had one program that got approved and stole info from users.
This just in about the new Droid:
Android wallpaper app exploit stole info from millions of users.
http://www.mobileburn.com/news.jsp?Id=10167

Capital punishment is too good for these hackers. I'd hand them over to Marcellus Wallace to get medieval on their asses.

I'm so tired of fixing family computers due to malware that I have actually started recommending they get a Mac Mini. Sad I know, but it saves me the time having to clean out their systems.

But where did the motherboards come from, $100 bucks says they were made in China

There are so many things that can get past UAC and anti-virus that I simply reimage when my system starts acting up. Something is wrong if I make a typo in a URL and end up in a bad place, and suddenly I start getting scare ware browser windows even though I am not surfing.

Can't trust your browser no matter how good you are, it is as simple as that.

...........Yep had this about 6 months ago from GameCopyWorld too..yeah it was a bitch to get rid of but I did

McAfee software is such badly written, intrusive rubbish that anyone who even considers using it on their computer without having read the thousands of forum posts by disgruntled users is a fool.

1) anyone who falls for this scam deserves it
2) real email from company will not include an attachment
3) why would you even want mcafee?
4) backup your precious data often and backup properly

I wished they'd make this fake MaCaffee for OSX as well. I just want to see an acutal article on Toms with a picture of a worm inside an Apple. That would make my day. Apple users are more gulable.