{"id":72943,"date":"2010-02-27T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=72943"},"modified":"2010-02-27T08:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T08:05:00","slug":"rogueware-security-essentials-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/rogueware-security-essentials-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Rogueware &#8220;Security essentials 2010&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Microsoft has warned Windows users to be cautious against a rogueware (fake software) which calls itself Security Essentials 2010 as opposed to Microsoft Security Essentials which is a genuine security product from Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>Security essentials 2010 installs a fake virus scanner on your machine and blocks some processes. It also blocks access to the websites of some of the antivirus companies. It does this by downloading a Win32\/Alureon component and another Layered Service Provider (LSP) component which monitors the TCP traffic sent by various Web browsers and blocking any traffic to certain domains.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Security essentials 2010 charges you to scan and remove files on your machine, claiming the version you will have initially downloaded as a trial edition. This is contrary to Microsoft Security Essentials which is free for genuine Windows users.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has blogged it here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mmpc\/archive\/2010\/02\/24\/if-it-calls-itself-security-essentials-2010-then-it-s-possibly-fake-innit.aspx\">https:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/mmpc\/archive\/2010\/02\/24\/if-it-calls-itself-security-essentials-2010-then-it-s-possibly-fake-innit.aspx<\/a><\/div>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has warned Windows users to be cautious against a rogueware (fake software) which calls itself Security Essentials 2010 as opposed to Microsoft Security Essentials which is a genuine security product from Microsoft. Security essentials 2010 installs a fake virus scanner on your machine and blocks some processes. It also blocks access to the websites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72943","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\/72943"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}