<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dda88098-0562-4c08-ad8c-d55e17927a33/4592F07D-1CE3-44FE-9408-2E0EAF43ED36/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/230062" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/230062" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/230062"><H1> <DIV class="source"> <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/zd/tc_zd/SIG=110br0vfp;_ylt=AklA_2WlZwz5eSB1iWYz9c1Y.3QA/**http:%2F%2Fwww.pcmag.com%2F"><IMG height="60" border="0" width="60" alt="PC Magazine" src="http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/us/nws/p/pcmag_60x60.gif" /></A> </DIV> New Spyware (Wrongly) Claims It's Won PCMag Award </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/230062">The site itself appears to include malicious graphics: xpantispyware dot com. The ad looks like a fairly standard antimalware product ad. It also includes a number of award logos, including PCMag Editors' Choice and Best of 2005. For the record, it did not win any such awards</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/230062">site and the fake program you can download from it <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/zd/tc_zd/storytext/230062/28318461/SIG=12p9cc1lj/*http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2008-051910-0118-99&tabid=2"><SPAN id="lw_1216769540_1" class="yshortcuts">are written up by Symantec</SPAN></A> as malicious. They make no claim that does anything malicious in the sense of infection or spreading itself. Instead they say that once you download and install it, it makes exaggerated claims of threats present on the computer. "The user is then prompted to pay for a full license of the application in order to remove the errors."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/230062">there is a large category of malicious programs that present themselves as antispyware or antivirus programs</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/zd/230062">once you had the name of a product, to search for it on <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/zd/tc_zd/storytext/230062/28318461/SIG=10o9q5t9q/*http://www.google.com/"><SPAN id="lw_1216769540_3" class="yshortcuts">Google</SPAN></A> or some other major engine. You would quickly notice lots of pages tagging it as malicious</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4592F07D-1CE3-44FE-9408-2E0EAF43ED36/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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