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Fake anti-viruses and other threats of February 2010

March 1, 2010

Though short, February saw quite a number of viral threats, Along with traditional and online fake anti-viruses in the spotlight new extortion schemes involving mobile devices also appeared. and proportions of Windows blockers’ epidemic declined.

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Joint efforts of Doctor Web, law enforcement organizations, telecom operators, short number aggregators and wide public awareness of the Trojan.Winlock problem allowed reducing the number of infected machines to figures comparable to the number registered when the epidemics began in November 2009. While in January the number of detections of Trojan.Winlock registeredper day could exceed 100 000, in February the figure dropped to several thousands per twenty-four hours.

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