Chat networks and blogs are being used to lure movie fans to malicious sites promising: �Watch New Moon Full Movie,� according to LastWatchDog.com blogger Byron Acohido.
The much anticipated movie �New Moon� is due to open tomorrow.
The malicious operators are using search engine optimizations techniques to lure �New Moon� fans to sites with malicious downloads of a rogue security product and bot malware. If a victim goes to the site he or she is told to download a viewer called �streamviewer� to watch the movie. The download is a Trojan and they get infected.
For those who�ve already infected themselves, he quotes Sunbelt Chief Technical Officer Eric Sites:
�For anyone whose PC is already hopelessly infested with scareware and/or other infectious programs, Sunbelt Software�s free deep scanning tool could be a godsend. VIPRE Rescue can neutralize many of the nastiest scareware promos, rootkits and keyloggers lurking on your hard drive, and bogging down your machine�s performance.
�VIPRE Rescue makes it easy to wipe out infections on a nearly inoperable computer, often times enabling successful repair, as well as installation of necessary security applications to prevent these infections from happening in the future.�
LastWatchDog.com post here.
Tom Kelchner
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