Ransomware

You might be searching for free anti-virus software and during your quest you stumble upon a page that proposes exactly what you seek. You hardly think it through and you push the “download now” button. Holy balloons! Suddenly your computers seems to go bezerk and after a little while, a windows appears telling you that your computer has been infected.

You’ve just been served with Ransomware, the latest technique used by rogue anti-spyware products ! Next, you can read that you can have the scanner remove the infection for a fee.

In a nutshell, Ransomware are rogue anti-spyware products that are peddled by trojans and worms.

The process is as follows:

A trojan infects your computer

The trojan then displays messages stating that your computer is infected. The trojan proposes a rogue anti-spyware product the clean your computer, hence the ransom to be paid!

Below is a list of these rogue anti-spyware programs and their affiliated trojans:

Anti-Virus Product Trojan That Sells It

WinFixer2005 Vundo / Virtumondo / Virtumonde
WinAntiVirus Vundo / Virtumondo / Virtumonde
WinAntiSpy Vundo / Virtumondo / Virtumonde
SpyTrooper ZLOB Trojan
SpyAxe ZLOB Trojan
The SpyGuard ZLOB Trojan
RazeSpyware Unknown Trojan
SpySherrif Unknown Trojan

It seems Illysoft LLC (spynomore) has made a speciality of finding, guarding and removing these types of infections from your PC, according to their website, even the larger anti-virus software companies know how to block these pests but not how to remove them.