PC threats from fake Antivirus

According to a reach Google made few days back that fake antivirus software are causing major security threat to PC. They uses black hat SEO to rank top in search engines like Google and Yahoo.

The Google team analyzed 11,000 sites and found 240 millions of fake antivirus applications, these websites contains popup which shows virus removal or some free virus protection services results in system failure. These fake antivirus applications cause 15 % of total malware attacks on PC which is dangerous for computer as well as data.

Its Victims are typically tempted to types of sites with the scams by clicking links to them in spam messages or in “poisoned” search results. Scammers are working to move their pages to the top position of search engine results pages for keywords tied to things like celebrity foibles and big breaking news, to the point that results for “trending topics” often includes many malicious results. In fact, 60 percent of the malware Google found on sites embedding popular keywords was designed to distribute fake antivirus applications.

According to study that Google made “The attackers also use online ads to try to distribute fake security program with the help of the sites of legal Web publishers”. These fake anti-virus scams are accountable for half of total malware delivered via ads, up fivefold from a last year.

If you ever witness such these pop-ups, you should never install it as it could be fatal. Scan your computer with security application from a trusted company. Even Microsoft offers free scans through its Windows Live safety scanner.

If you did pay, monitor your credit card account or change your number, as it’s now in questionable hands and can lead to any miss-happening.