ITBackbones has a story about a new spyware that instead of keeping your system guarded against spywares, the program itself works as a Spyware and Adware, triggering pop-up ads and tampering with system components, seriously compromising the security of your computer in the process.
SpySheriff is distributed using Trojans, Trojan Droppers and Trojan-Downloaders that show fake warning messages about spyware and riskware infections. These Trojans find their way to victim?s computers by exploiting browser vulnerabilities, Spam mails or by getting bundled with other computer utilities.
Ronak Desai, a Security Analyst at MicroWorld Technologies says SpySheriff program also prevents infected users from performing a System Restore, by blocking the system calendar and restore points. This robs users of their option to revert computers to an earlier status.
Ronak suggests that infected users with no protection can get a workaround for this issue by undoing their last restore operation and then performing a system restore, which seems to be working in some cases.
SpyAxe, SpywareStrike, SpywareNO, Spyware Cleaner and Winantivirus are a few other dubious applications of the same breed exposed by MicroWorld Technologies in the past. Most of them follow more or less similar spreading routines to infect large numbers of victims in quick time.
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