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4.55 (Highly recommend) from 18 votes (691 Visits)

Anti-virus SCAM beware

by cheekymonkey

(August 2007) (rank 500+)

Just a few moments ago as I was trying to get to the latest activity page of Minti, the page changed to a very authentic and authourative site stating that my Anti-virus protection on my PC was inadequate. Therefore My computer was at risk of viruses and my passwords being

transmitted to unwanted sites. It had a little info box that had my country, my operating system and my browser in use. But the browser it had listed was not what I use, that's what made the alarm bells ring loud and clear. It of course wanted me to download and make further purchases of thier anti-viral software. The name of the program they were trying to get me to download was WinAntiVirus Pro. The site that it was on was amaena.com.

Now I'm a real sceptic. I don't open email from those I don't know, and I don't go downloading content from sites I'm not sure of, and as my McAfee expired recently I am even more cautious.

So for everyone elses safety I thought I'd check it out, via a web search. So I searched for "amaena scam", and it brought up a lot of info about it.

According to the McAfee Site Advisor it gets a big red cross...danger, stay away basically. Comments made state that this site/program can put spyware, adware and viruses on your computer. Also scams, phishing, spam, excessive pop-ups, and may also take over your browser and KERPLUT goes your computer.

So please for the safety of your machine do not download any of these programs until you have verified the authenticity of them.

The simplest way to check the authenticity of anything like this is to do a search with the name and SCAM typed after it.

Here's some some sites with more info about this nasty little bit of work!!

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/amaena.com/summary/

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/privacyprotector.com

http://wiki.castlecops.com/Malware_Removal:_Virtumundo

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060806045951AASarSb

Hope this saves others from a little heartache and $$$$$

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| emmysmum

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

yes it is also known as winantivirus 2007.
And what frontier has said is 100% correct!
Thankyou for sharing this with us all!
Cheers.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| Frontier

Re: Anti-virus SCAM when you log into Minti beware

The adware program is called "errorsafe" and is known to be a type of hyjackware. If you downoad it onto your computer you will be inundated with fake security and performance alerts. It offers a free scan (this scan actually downloads the program onto your computer) then asks for money to get rid of the fake results it produces.

More here.
Best defence.
Keep your antivirus program up to date.
I am using AVAST free version and it detected and stopped the installation before it could install.

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	August 2007 \| cheekymonkey

Re: Anti-virus SCAM when you log into Minti beware

Yeah I have gotten another antivirus program now and I've set it to do an automatic cleanup every 24hrs as well. Also have the adaware that I run after I use the net every time. Just can't be too safe these days.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| jd2

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

Thanx i get them all the time there's a few as we have pc more or less all time we downloading you see alot!!!! If your not protected at the moment google avg and windows defender you can have 3 mnths free trial my bro a bit computer wiz and thats what he using for time being rates it highly after that you can purchase on line he also recommends bull guard but i believe its quiet expencive maybe they do free trail too???

jo xxx

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| Marglr

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

Thanks ,good info to know!

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| hermy

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

had something similar today.....when on minti.......thanks for the warning....regards Sandra xxx

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| smilenowforever

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

I had this to as soon as I tried to go to the Minit web site tonight.

Don't ever be fooled by this things. My brother unfortunately was and keep downloading from the web sites which caused my computer to end up with a trojan which was hard to get rid of. In the end my system shut down everytime I logged in. Needless to say my brother got a blasting from me!

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| stacey79

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

hi i had it before its a bug a tricky one to get rid of to

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| monyq83

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

i got that too. thanks for warning us!

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| Ngairi

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

Thanks for the warning.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| cheekymonkey

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

No problem, I'd hate to think anyone here got caught out by it.

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	5.00 (Excellent) \| August 2007 \| jenaya04

Re: Anti-virus SCAM beware

Thanks for the heads up!!

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