Two Hoax Installers Used to Spread Lop AdwarePanda Security, a well-known provider of IT security solutions, from Spain announced on August 20, 2008 that PandaLabs identified two hoax P2P software installers namely Torrent101-4.5.0.0 and BitRoll-5.0.0.0 that scammers using to download the Lop adware onto the computers of unwary users. Security specialists said that these installers are employed to exchange contents between users located remotely. Also, they can be downloaded from the Internet; therefore, any user accesses them became infected. Furthermore, the Lop adware displays various advertisers' ads through banners, pop-up windows etc. It is also designed to switch the home page of Internet Explorer to its own search engine. Thus, search hits from this engine returns advertising pages pertaining to the key words t... » SPAMfighter News - 9/1/2008 |    |
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