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• MS: IE 8 Won't Install On Windows 7

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Links In The forum Dec 11

It would appear something that's been being talked about has finally come about, malware using RSS feeds to push files to users. Took them long enough, we've been hearing about the possibility for a couple of years, I've got two links related in this latest thread

A phishing campaign that's been going on for a month at least gets some updated info, and of course the home sites are in China, the new play ground for scumbags, go figure

The rogues list from Malwarebytes gets some new additions this last week or so

For a little chuck at the expense of MS, some people have come up with what may or may not be Windows error messages

RBN Rogue Spreading Domains

As RBN gets more exposed, so to do their inner workings. One thing that has come to light is their ever increasing amount of rogue spreading domains

Gromozon Gang Turns To Rogues & Social engineering

Looks like the boys behind Gromozon malware have turned to social engineering and rogues to pull in unknowing users. Read All About It!!....

Corrupted Google Searches = Malware

I for one trust Google to provide fairly safe search results. But in this day and age of malware scumbags looking at every vector to infect, they've combined two tactics, a type of 'seeding' of key search words and drive-by downloads.

While doing a search for my son I stumbled upon some odd search results which led to something that has gotten huge and is making alot of news on main media sites. I call it Google Poisoning.

More Rogue Banner Ads

Yes, this is becoming a more popular trend these days. Seems like every week we find another site with rogue banner ads. Follow The Latest Banner Ad Problem

Zlob Boys Change Things Up

As opposed to the Storm worm gang, the asshats that push the fake codecs, which turn out to be Zlob infections have finally made a slight change. Instead of tricking users into installing a codec, they're now saying you need to update your flash player. See More here....

Rogues List Update Info

Well after a long time off I'm back to updating the RogueRemover rogues thread. Far too many for me to list as it's been 10 weeks. See More Here.

Rogue\Suspect Software Ads In Blogger Blogs

Recently while perusing Digg, I came across a blog on Google Blogger domains pushing rogue software, WinFixer to be specific. I buried it and with the help of another blogger, had it shut down.

Now we're on a mission, looking for more rogues. They seem to run in groups, and almost all are identical in design and content, with a big 'ad' right at the top.

We're hopeful that Google will step up and do something about what could be a very serious problem for unsuspecting users. It's not so much the software that's bad, but they want you to buy the stuff to remove threats and we all know that's a scam. Read More Here