The story is here http://www.scmagazineus.com/Source-of-rogue-malware-tracked-down/article/120204/
Nice little earner
I didn’t doubt the what do rogue av makers get was money.
I dare say that some are also getting more than just money up front, if a system is also turned into a bot there would be other revenue streams from spam, DDOS blackmail, etc.
I’m sure you must have come across other malware, backdoor, etc. on systems cleaned up from the likes of anti-virus 2008/9, etc.
Aye it does tend to bring a few friends to the party ;D
Yes and those friends are about making money as well ;D
More information available in this ScanDoo/google search …
http://g.s.scandoo.com/search?hl=en&meta=on&q=Bakasoftware
… and if someone really wanted to find Bakasoftware, I think they could from the below link but I’m sure not going there.
hxxp://g.s.scandoo.com/search?hl=en&meta=on&q=Bakasoftware
I wonder if Awil is staying on top of this malware program with new signatures for it? I read that because there are new and different variants of it that it makes it hard for any of the Antivirus programs to catch it everytime.
You are always playing catch-up with stuff like this as far as signature detection goes, which is why avast also uses generic signatures to try and identify multiple variants (including new ones) of the same type of malware.
There is however no guarantee that it would be always detected, but most people would do well with a degree of common sense. When something that you ‘didn’t’ install on your system tells you you have security issues and invites you to visit their site, etc. don’t.
Think, how do they know you are infected/insecure with a) being installed on your system b) have run a scan, etc. answer they don’t know, it is the fear factor hoping that you do visit the site, install their software and bingo you are in trouble.