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Want to know what Rogue Software is?
I'll tell you because my home PC got infected with it last night
All of the sudden, my screen was flooded by pop-ups, saying that my PC is infected by some malicious virus and I need to downoald some antivirus to repair the damage (I didn't of course), but even clicking the (X) button on those pop-ups will result in the opening of even more pop-ups.
Then I google searched and found that these are the symptoms of rogue software:
I have been infected with this one, in particular: Antivirus 2009The main goal of rogue software makers is to install and sell their product. In order to attempt to install their program, fake Windows dialog boxes are often displayed attempting to entice the user to click on them. Most of the time, they will display a message such as "WARNING! Your computer is infected with Spyware/Adware/Viruses! Buy [software name] to remove it!", a variant of which will say "Click OK to scan your system" instead of asking the user to outright buy the software. Usually, when the dialog box's OK button is clicked, this will direct the user to a malicious website, which will install the program.
I noticed, that on top of everything else, this bugger somehow managed to deactivate NOD32, my default antivirus. I can't believe how pervasive it is!
I was so pissed off.
I don't know where I got it from as I don't visit suspicious sites (torrent search engines) or click on suspicious links, ever.
Anyways, my boyfriend said that this pain in the @$$ is very hard to remove from the system so we'll have to format the C:\
Luckily, most of my data was stored in another partition, and I backed up the rest of it last night. I just hope the files aren't infected as well.
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