Alert : 2 More Fake Anti Viruses Have Been Identified as AntiAID and ControlCenter

One of the methods to flood your computer with viruses is disguise a virus as an anti virus! Over the past few years we encountered many fake anti-viruses. Antivirus 2009 is one of the most famous… Recently Panda Security have discovered two more fake anti-viruses… Want to know what they are? Lets see…

Most of these programs work like this… first they scan your system and show you that they have detected a large number of viruses from our PC, actually the anti-virus itself is the virus! Most of them downloads many other viruses and eat up your system while running this scan. After the scan have been finished they asks us to pay to remove the viruses… and if we pay… Boom!

AntiAID

AntiAID is a fake antivirus which when installed on a computer displays a screen comprising several tabs for configuring the protection level,updates, small tools, etc. This malware first simulates a scan of the computer, falsely claiming to detect various examples of malware.

When the scan is finished, a screen appears displaying the results and a warning about the risks of the threats it has supposedly detected. To delete these ‘threats’ users are asked to enter a registration code, and a browser window opens with the page through which users can pay for this code. Once again, the aim of cyber-crooks is none other than to profit financially from this fraudulent application.

Every time users try to remove the malware supposedly detected on their systems, or update components of the application, they will be asked for a payment.

More screen-shots at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/tags/antiaid/

ControlCenter

Another fake antivirus, ControlCenter, operates in a similar fashion. It fakes a scan of the system and claims to have detected (non-existent malware. It then asks for payment in order to remove the ‘malware’.

More screen-shots at : http://www.flickr.com/photos/panda_security/tags/controlcenter/

For more information about these viruses visit : http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/