{"id":72771,"date":"2010-09-27T06:43:28","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T06:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72771"},"modified":"2010-09-27T06:43:28","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T06:43:28","slug":"rogue-software-uses-the-name-microsoft-security-essentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/rogue-software-uses-the-name-microsoft-security-essentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogue software uses the name \u201cMicrosoft Security Essentials\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFake Microsoft Security Essentials Rogueware Alert\u201d pop ups declaring that it was unable to remove Unknown Win32\/Trojan threat<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Image1.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"457\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Image2.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once user clicks on clean, it recommends to online scan and shows legitimate AVs names.<br \/>\nIn addition it also shows free install for Rogue software<br \/>\n\u201cRed Cross\u201d,<br \/>\n\u201cPeak Protection\u201d,<br \/>\n\u201cPest Detector\u201d,<br \/>\n\u201cMajor Defense Kit\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cAntiSpy Safeguard\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/archive\/Image3.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once this Rogueware is installed, it prompts to reboot your computer. After reboot,<br \/>\nIt displays fake scan reports.<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of \u201cMicrosoft Security Essentials Rogueware\u201d is force users to purchase the rogue software.<br \/>\nDo not install any of those tools as they are fake.<\/p>\n<p>Quick Heal already detects \u201cMicrosoft Security Essentials Rogueware\u201d as \u201cWin32.Rogue.FakePAV.3\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFake Microsoft Security Essentials Rogueware Alert\u201d pop ups declaring that it was unable to remove Unknown Win32\/Trojan threat Once user clicks on clean, it recommends to online scan and shows legitimate AVs names. In addition it also shows free install for Rogue software \u201cRed Cross\u201d, \u201cPeak Protection\u201d, \u201cPest Detector\u201d, \u201cMajor Defense Kit\u201d \u201cAntiSpy Safeguard\u201d Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}