New Fake Anti-Virus poses as Microsoft Update

Sophos computer security firm and data protection, issued a new warning about a virus attacks false. Specialty is that it pretends to be an update to Microsoft Security and tricks users into installing malicious software.








 The user will see an almost exact copy of the updated page from Microsoft, but there is a difference. This only works in Firefox, while the real Microsoft

Update requires you to use Internet Explorer.You can see behind the false virus attacks have become more professional, and can actually get more innocent people than ever, this trap. In this case, an enormous amount has been paid to copy the graphics and elements from the original site to site to trick people into believing that the wrong site is actually the original.

They also used the calendar of the monthly patch update released by Microsoft, called Patch Tuesday to get more users to install malware.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, said: ;Users should be more vigilant than ever that the false security pop-up windows in your browser fake anti-virus attacks are big business for cyber criminals who invest time and y. effort to make them as convincing as possible. malicious hackers using social engineering tricks chips more often, and the risk is that users will be afraid of a false alert by giving money to solve the problems that never existed in the first place".