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Can you imagine a situation where an armed guard at
a bank , himself started looting the bank? Unbelievably
ironical it may sound, but that’s precisely the
story with many of the anti-spyware products that mushroom
in the market every passing day. SpyAxe is a purportedly
anti-spyware program that kills spyware found on your
computer. It’s been doing rounds since the first
week of December 2005 when it was spreading at a rate
2500 PCs per hour, with a sure chance of much faster
spread rate by now.
SpyAxe works through a known trojan horse to display
annoying popup windows. The alerts warn the user that
user’s pc is affected with spyware, prompting you
to click on the same. If you click on the popup it starts
downloading the malware from www.spyaxe.com. Don’t
be misguided by the high-profile and stylish marketing
methods of SpyAxe that claims itself to be a truly legitimate
firm. For starters, it gives a false address for the
company.
After SpyAxe is installed, it will conduct scans on
the computer in a hogwash manner. SpyAxe can’t
be uninstalled from the Add/Remove Programs list of
Windows. This tool makes high use of false positives,
even detecting a registry key that belongs to the Windows
operating system. SpyAxe is installed by the trojan
horses Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob, ZToolbar and Trojan.Puper.
A new program called SpywareStrike is another addition
to this disguised malice. This one charges you $49.99
to invade your PC and pester your life! SpywareStrike
came into the market On December 20, 2005, located at
a URL of the same name. The marketing is very much identical
to that of SpyAxe, with a very similar logo. SpywareStrike
is installed via trojan horse, direct download from
the site, or comes from a left over after the manual
disabling of SpyAxe!
The best way to combat this method of intrusion is not
to get lured by the flashy ads of these programs that
promises you moon with their clever marketing tricks.
One should stick to security software of established
and reputable Security Solution Providers. MicroWorld
products eScan and MailScan are highly powerful and
extremely effective against spywares and adwares with
their very large database of such malice. Apart from
getting updated every hour, it blocks all programs that
looks suspicious in its purpose, while informing you
of the same. MicroWorld advises its users to update
their software regularly to thwart threats of this nature.
Incase one has already downloaded these harmful programs,
the MWAV toolkit can be used to detect and remove these
deceitful malware.
MicroWorld
MicroWorld ( www.mwti.net ) are the developers of the
world's first Real-Time Anti-Virus and Content Security
software eScan for desktops and servers. Its communication
security software, MailScan is the first comprehensive
e-mail scanner for your SMTP/POP3 Mail Server. MicroWorld
Winsock Layer (MWL) is the revolutionary technology
underlying these products, powering them to several
certifications and awards by some of the most prestigious
testing bodies, notable among them being Virus Bulletin,
Checkmark, TUCOWS, Red Hat Ready, and Novell Ready.
Combining their powerful scanner with MWL technology,
MicroWorld solutions provide a Real-Time Proactive security
for your systems.
To learn more, kindly visit the website at http://www.mwti.net/
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