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Fake Antivirus Lives On, Now Infecting 200K WordPress Pages

A new series of mass-injections have been targeting WordPress sites as of late and appear to have already infected more than 200,000 web pages. The injections lead unsuspecting users to a bogus AV site that appears to perform a scan on the computer, allegedly as part of a Windows Security Alert The graphic that pops on screen resembles a Windows Explorer window that after running the scan encourages the user to download an anti-virus program that turns out to be a Trojan.

Source: https://threatpost.com/fake-antivirus-lives-now-infecting-200k-wordpress-sites-030712/76295/

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