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Rogue Antivirus Gangs Seize on McAfee Snafu

Scammers capitalizing on search terms surrounding McAfee’s recent bad anti-virus update. Searching for McAfees free scanning tool returns page after page of results that launch the familiar come-ons that try to frighten visitors into purchasing bogus (if not also malicious) products. Panda Security just published a similar post which lists a number of McAfee-related search terms that can lead to sites like those in the screen shots below. I took screen shots here with Internet Explorer 8, because as usual the pages simply would not load with the noscript add-on enabled in my version of Firefox.”]

Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2010/04/rogue-antivirus-gangs-seize-on-mcafee-snafu/

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