According to Kaspersky Lab, fake antivirus programs are getting increasingly harder for distinguishing from the actual AVs; published eweekeurope.co.uk on November 30, 2011.
The security company in a warning stated that cyber-criminals perpetrating fake AVs were being able to create the programs better than before in terms of appearance and legitimacy of real AVs. Consequently, users infected with the fake software were finding it more difficult to determine if the program was a malicious campaign or a real one.
Antivirus Researcher Dmitry Bestuzhev from the security firm Kaspersky Lab stated that cyber-criminals created one false anti-virus website that particularly imitated the AV programs Kaspersky, Avira and Symantec's Norton provided. The Wall Street Journal reported this on December 1, 2011. Bestuzhev drew attention to the observation that the contamination began with a Trojan downloader, which caused the display of the fake website on the affected PC that was a near exact similarity with the actual website.
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