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"When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu.

"When my girlfriend visits me, she has to work on a mini PC while I use my laptop to finish whatever I postponed at the office. Her PC has a 1GHz VIA processor and 128 MB of RAM and runs Ubuntu.

SpywareSweeperPro (a clone of SpywareSweeper) is a fraudulent anti-spyware application that is commonly downloaded and installed onto your machine by a Trojan that sneaks into your system through browser security exploits. As soon as SpywareSweeperPro is installed onto your machine, it will display false notifications of virus infection risks and try to scare you into buying the full version of the program in order to eliminate the threats it "found". SpywareSweeperPro is a fraud, and will only consume your processing power to waste. It is strongly recommended to eliminate SpywareSweeperPro from your system without any hesitation.

Viruswebprotect.com is a malicious website disguised as a legitimate security advisor. Once you enter Viruswebprotect.com, it will infect your computer with a Trojan parasite that will annoy you with endless Windows-like threat notifications, which are actually fake. By using such scare tactics, Viruswebprotect.com will try to convince you into buying corrupt anti-spyware applications in order to eliminate the parasites "detected" on your system. Both Viruswebprotect.com and the products it offers are fake and should not be trusted. Immediate removal of Viruswebprotect.com is strongly recommended.

Fetchtoday.com is a nasty browser hijacker. Fetchtoday.com hijacks your browser and continuously redirects it to www.Fetchtoday.com that promotes and sells fake anti-spyware applications. Once visited, Fetchtoday.com will secretly download and install a Trojan parasite onto your computer that will generate fraudulent threat notifications in order to scare you into purchasing one of the rogue anti-spyware applications promoted on www.Fetchtoday.com. Fetchtoday.com is a dangerous website that may violate your privacy and security severely. Immediate removal of Fetchtoday.com is strongly recommended.

wuauclt.exe is initially a Windows Auto Update Client. wuauclt.exe stays resident in the background and checks Microsoft website for the operating system updates. Originally, wuauclt.exe is a legitimate system process that is located at C:\Windows\System32, but there are cases when wuauclt.exe is actually a disguised virus, Trojan or a worm. If you find wuauclt.exe stored anywhere different from its original location, you should get really suspicious and scan your system for possible threats.

Trojandownloader.xs is a nasty Trojan parasite that may compromise your computer via browser security exploits. Once inside your machine, Trojandownloader.xs will bombard your desktop with fake warning messages, such as the following: "Security problem. Trojandownloader.xs on system" These messages are used to scare novice computer users into purchasing corrupt anti-spyware applications. Trojandownloader.xs will also decrease security system settings, thus allowing a remote hacker to take over your computer completely without your consent and knowledge. Trojandownloader.xs also uses aggressive scare tactics by changing desktop images and icon colors, and it will not stop until you remove Trojandownloader.xs from your system entirely.

The site reports that the users are redirected through a maze of malware, all with the goal of gaining access to personal user information. It reminds me of that Eddie Izzard bit in “Dress To Kill” where he talks about how we as a society abhor serial killers but when we start to get even into the hundreds or thousands or millions we’re like, “well done! First, people figured out that in order to hijack people’s PCs for “bot net” purposes, they could try to trick them into installing a program that would slip it in, along with the desired program being loaded. The user might figure out he/she was infected with the spyware and try to clean it with a remover, but it would keep coming right back, as the original virus kept re-downloading the stuff. This led to popular anti-virus packages starting to blur the lines between spyware and virii (in cases where the company in question didn’t have a specific anti-spyware product ready to sell you). In any case, all of this confused a lot of people — but also made them catch on that a lot of this stuff appeared to be impossible to clean ONLY because of that “downloader trojan horse” trick. More Spyware News

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