Monday, February 1, 2010

The Chameleon Rogue

The Chameleon Rogue

Special thanks to all the folks @ MBAM

Recently our friends at MBAM discovered a new rogue security application from Braviax rogue family.

Like a Chameleon the rogue has the ability to change the name of the application based on system environment.

List of rogue names used by this rogue variant on Windows XP

XP Guardian
XP Antivirus Pro
XP AntiSpyware 2010
XP Internet Security
XP Internet Security 2010
Antivirus XP 2010


Screenshot of XP Internet Security 2010 application

List of rogue names used by this rogue variant on Windows Vista

Antivirus Vista 2010
Vista Antispyware 2010
Vista Guardian
Vista Antivirus Pro
Vista Internet Security
Vista Internet Security 2010


Screenshot of Vista Guardian application

List of rogue names used by this rogue variant on Windows 7

Win7 Guardian
Win 7 Antivirus Pro
Win 7 Antispyware 2010
Win 7 Internet Security
Win 7 Internet Security 2010



Screenshot of Win 7 Internet Security application


Screenshot of other rogues applications here and the removal instructions of these rogues can be found here

Bharath M N

blog comments powered by Disqus