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Posted by wng_z3r0 on October 14, 2007, 1:12 pm
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There's no 'proprietary' microsoft code being used. This is a TACTIC used by
rogue cleaners (i.e. the smitfraud variants). Microsoft is not the one
telling you that you are infected.
wng
>> Last week, I had a situation of a system infection by Trojan W32 Worm
>> Looksky which has left me wondering if Microsoft is aware that suppliers
>> of
>> three software packages in the areas of Privacy, Security and Error
>> cleaning
>> are using terrorizing and harassing tactics to pressure computer users
>> into
>> buying their software, using Microsoft's proprietary Windows Alert box
>> for
>> creating the impression that they are the suppliers of Privacy, Spyware
>> Control, Error cleaning software, recommended by Microsoft.
>>
>> Microsoft's proprietary Widows Alert Box keeps popping up every 30
>> seconds
>> informing the user that his system is under threat etc. and asks the user
>> to
>> reply if he would like to go to the SecureSystem software (recommended by
>> Microsoft?) website for removing the malware on the system. Even if the
>> user
>> says 'no', the application page on which the user is working is blanked
>> out
>> and the SecureSystem webpage is brought up. This is followed by
>> manufacturers of other software packages like Ultimate Cleaner, Privacy
>> protector etc. With these three and the Microsoft Windows Alert Box
>> popping
>> up turn by turn every few seconds, the user is not allowed to work on any
>> application, since the user is kept unendingly busy closing the up the
>> popups.
>>
>> These evil suppliers put their shortcuts not only on the desktop but also
>> in
>> the StartUp group and the Favourites in Internet Explorer. Further, They
>> regenerate themselves in the same locations, even if the user tries to
>> delete them. SystemSecure goes to the extent of removing the user's
>> default
>> webpage in Internet Explorer and replace it by their own home page. Even
>> after putting it back to ones's Default webpage, LookSky is able to
>> remove
>> the default web-page and replace it with SystemSecure's web-page without
>> fail.
>>
>> I did manage to search on the Intenet, struggling my way through the maze
>> of
>> popups and download the Smitfraud Fix for the Worm. But I am wondering
>> how
>> Microsoft has not taken any legal action on these software suppliers who
>> are
>> using the worm to sell their products by terrorizing customers by
>> creating
>> the false impression that they are Microsoft's recommended suppliers of
>> software for these areas.
>>
>> P. Jayant
>
> True. Several computer users have faced the kind of problem faced by
> me last week during the last 10 or more years.
> Also True. Microsoft has done a great deal to educate sleepy and
> ignorant users like me to take proper steps to protect computers from
> attacks.
> But has Microsoft taken effective steps to stop software manufacturers
> like SystemSecure or UltimateCleaner from using Microsoft's
> proprietary features like Windows System Alert Box to publicize their
> products, blatantly giving a false impression that their products have
> been recommended by Microsoft and in the process, infecting user
> systems with worms?
>
> P. Jayant
>
>
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