Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Pacquiao-Cotto 'livestream' Leads to false anti-virus

As Filipinos and Puerto Ricans were hard rooting for their champions in 15th November Sunday’s fight, so were cybercriminals who wished to capitalize on the match. Through SEO poisoning, users searching for a survive stream of the Pacquiao vs Cotto fight were instead served a fake anti-virus variant.

According to Trend Micro Threat Response Engineer Jasper Manuel, explore results led to the download of TROJ_FAKEAV.MAN.

Users who are interested in watching Pacquaio’s fights are advised to wait away from suspicious-looking links.

Article source: http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/technology/11/17/09/pacquiao-cotto-livestream-leads-fake-anti-virus

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