Rogue security applications are also known as Scareware because they try to frighten users into thinking they need to buy a certain program. They looks like legitimate-anti-virus, anti-spyware and anti-malware products. These rogue applications appear beneficial from a security perspective but provide little or no protection, generate misleading alerts; essentially, they are malware, pretending to be genuine Internet security programs, and they aim to steal your money, private information etc.
How do Rogue Programs propagate?
Rogues are propagated in a variety of ways, using social engineering tactics to deceive and mislead people. For example:
1. You may see an ad for a security software product pop-up on your PC as your browsing the Web, warning you that your PC is infected with malware, prompting you to download a specific program to remove it.
2. You may see messages that appear to come from your operating system, telling you that your system is infected, and pushing you to take a certain action, like visit a website or download a program.
What do these programs do?
Rogue security software might report a virus, even though your computer is actually clean. The software might also fail to report viruses when your computer is infected. Inversely, sometimes, when you download rogue security software, it will install a virus or other malicious software on your computer so that the software has something to detect.
Update Yourself
There are many sites that have fragments of information about rogues or just aren’t updated regularly enough to be useful. In the Lavasoft Rogue Gallery (http://www.lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/rogues), you’ll find the names of every rogue seen, a screenshot of its user interface and additional information about it.
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