Almost every computer user knows how difficult it is to remove malware, but do you know how difficult it is to make a malicious website to infect computers? According to experts at Panda Security, it’s not difficult at all. They discovered a tool dedicated to creating fraudulent business. It might look scary at the first sight, however fighting devil you know is much easier than not knowing what to expect.
The new tool named YTFakeCreator generates code of malicious website. A scammer only needs to fill some short form and the website is ready to infect visitors. YTFakeCreator makes a website that looks like YouTube; this fact is the trump card as the real YouTube is very popular and not everyone checks website’s URL in address bar.
Fortunately, YTFakeCreator is not very powerful and it can’t do anything else besides making a clone of YouTube. A scammer who owns such a website has to attract visitors somehow in order to infect computers. If you clicked on link to video on YouTube, make sure the website you’re browsing is actually YouTube.com, otherwise you shouldn’t trust a thing you see. Another good thing about this fraud is the website inability to infect machine automatically. This means, that even if you got tricked into visiting fraudulent page, you stay out of trouble if you don’t download anything.
October 15th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I’m receiving pop up messages that read, file:\\\C:program%20files/hp/digital%20imaging/bin/loading…hp%20image%20zone.htm?. After going to your website I get a message saying Application has generated an exception that could not be handled. Process id=0×1598 (5528), Thread id=x0122c(1452) . After trying to debug. I get a message cordbg.exe!a0×1598. Can you help me. I’ve tried to go to the Hp site, and my computer has so many popups, it won’t give me time. I also try to use add/remove programs, and I can’t do that. The first pop up I mentioned, happens over and over in less than two seconds. I’ve also gotten a virtual memory message. You name it.. it’s happened to my computer. I’ve tried using microsofts malious software removal tools, and all the other spyware/adware removal tools. Nothing seems to work. I’ve tried to write down the other errors I’ve received….seems like every day there are more. Also tryed system restore five times.Please help…if you get this message. Thanks, Judy Crawford