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Metatags in malware websites: II part

Posted by Asier Martínez at  05 March 09 09:15     A couple of days ago we mentioned how some creators of websites that host malware add metatags to them, so that they are not indexed by the search robots. Today, we are going to mention the opposite case. Let’s take the following URL as an example:

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Metatags in malware websites

Posted by Asier Martínez at  03 March 09 05:20     An indexing robot is a program which tracks websites, storing their content in databases and following the links which point to other websites. Rogue antimalware creators don’t usually add tags to the code of their websites or they add them so that

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Rogue ScanVirus site impersonates SaaS Anti-Virus

Posted by Sean-Paul Correll at  03 February 09 02:23     Today we discovered a new site using an interesting tactic to trick users into infecting themselves with malware. This time the cyber-criminals opted to pretend to be a Software as a Service (SaaS) Anti-Virus solution. The "Scan Virus" website

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