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The ‘You Shall Not Pass’ Virus steals the iconic line from The Lord of the Ring’s Gandalf and uses it in a typical browser hijacker infection. Computer users affected by the ‘You Shall Not Pass’ Virus have reported that the ‘You Shall Not Pass’ Virus takes over their Web browser, preventing them from accessing a wide variety of popular websites. Some of the websites affected by the ‘You Shall Not Pass’ Virus include Google, Facebook, Tumblr and YouTube. Whenever the computer user attempts to connect to one of these websites, the ‘You Shall Not Pass’ Virus redirects the victim’s Web browser to a page showing an image of Gandalf and the message ‘You Shall Not Pass’.

How the ‘You Shall Not Pass’ Virus Prevents You from Accessing Your Favorite Websites

Like many browser hijackers, the ‘You Shall Not Pass’ Virus uses a simple modification to the infected computer’s HOSTS file in…

Ad.adserverplus.com Pop-Up is a deceptive message that shows up on the desktop of compromised PC. Ad.adserverplus.com Pop-Up specifies that the affected PC has been corrupted by an adware application. Adware programs associated with Ad.adserverplus.com Pop-Up usually invade the attacked computer packaged with free music or video players, PDF creators and similar free programs. Internet users usually skip many steps of installation and this way inadvertently download other software products, like the adware application connected with Ad.adserverplus.com Pop-Up. Ad.adserverplus.com Pop-Up is a privacy invasive message. Ad.adserverplus.com Pop-Up is a tracking cookie that grabs information about the target Internet user’s browsing activity. Although basically some cookies may be valuable as they are used to remember the PC user’s user names, passwords and other information in specific…

‘Disk Drive C is being deleted’ fake message is a bogus alert used by the rogue anti-spyware SecureBit Technologies to intimidate computer users into believing that their computers are infected with various malware and, even more frightening, their C drives are being wipped out. Once SecureBit Technologies installs on your computer, it may block some Windows functions, and illustrate various alerts stating that the computer has been corrupted. You should not believe any messages coming from SecureBit Technologies. With the help of the ‘Disk Drive C is being deleted’ fake message, SecureBit Technologies would urge computer users to buy its full version and fake technical support. SecureBit Technologies is a useless fake anti-spyware program and will not fix computer issues. To protect the stability and…

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The ‘Your website access has been restricted’ Virus is part of a survey scam, a type of malware that is used to force computer users to fill out surveys which allow criminals to profit from affiliate marketing and similar monetization techniques. Basically, the ‘Your website access has been restricted’ Virus is designed to block access to some of the most popular websites, including YouTube, Facebook and Google. Whenever the computer user tries to access any of the websites on the ‘Your website access has been restricted’ Virus’ list, an error message asserting that it is essential to complete a survey is displayed on the victim’s computer.

How the ‘Your website access has been restricted’ Virus Infects a Computer

There are several tactics that criminals use to distribute the ‘Your website access has been restricted’ Virus. This malware infection can be installed on the…

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The ‘Attention! Your PC is blocked due to one of the reasons’ Virus is a dangerous Police Ransomware Trojan that blocks access to the infected computer, pretending to be part of an FBI operation. ESG security researchers have received increasing numbers of reports involving Police Ransomware infections such as the ‘Attention! Your PC is blocked due to one of the reasons’ Virus. Although this kind of malware has been around since at least 2009, with primitive versions of the scam going as far back as 2006 in the Russian Federation, in 2012 Police Ransomware infections around the world exploded, increasing dramatically in number. If you cannot access your computer because of a fake message from the FBI displayed by the ‘Attention! Your PC is blocked due to one of the reasons’ Virus, it is important to use a…

The ‘Warning! The site you are trying to visit’ fake alert is associated with a family of rogue anti-virus programs that use names that are variants of ‘AVASoft’ such as AVASoft Antivirus, AVASoft Professional Antivirus, etc. Those fake anti-virus applications, specially AVASoft Antivirus Professional carry out a version of a well known online scam that consists in trying to sell a useless, fake anti-virus software to inexperienced computer users. As part of its scam, these kinds of rogue security programs use a variety of fake error messages and alarming system alerts. The ‘Warning! The site you are trying to visit’ fake alert is just one of the many fake error messages used by this particular fake…

The ‘System message – Sector Not Found’ fake alert is one of the many bogus error messages associated with System Repair and its countless clones. System Repair is a fake defragmenter that uses the ‘System message – Sector Not Found’ fake alert and numerous other fake error messages to convince computer users that their computer is severely infected. While the ‘System message – Sector Not Found’ fake alert seems to indicate a severe hard drive problem on the infected computer, it is actually caused by a malware infection present on the victim’s computer. It is important to remember that the ‘System message – Sector Not Found’ fake alert does not indicate an actual hard ware problem. Instead, alarming error messages like the ‘System message – Sector Not Found’ fake alert typically indicate a malware infection that…

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The ‘This website has been blocked for you!’ Virus is a malware infection that alters your computer’s HOSTS file in order to force you to fill out online surveys and to sign up for services that you do not need. Essentially, the ‘This website has been blocked for you!’ Virus is a browser hijacker that has taken a new monetizing approach towards its attack. While previous ways of monetizing browser hijackers included leading computer users to websites replete with advertisements, fake search engines and attack websites containing exploit kits, the ‘This website has been blocked for you!’ Virus blocks popular websites including Facebook, eBay, MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter, Google, YouTube and IMDB and then claims that the ‘This website has been blocked for you!’ Virus has blocked them because of ’suspicious activity’ on your part. The ‘This website has been blocked for you!’ Virus claims that…

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The AVASoft Professional Antivirus Firewall Alert is one of the many fake error messages displayed by AVASoft Professional Antivirus, a rogue security program that is used to carry out a very common online scam. Although the AVASoft Professional Antivirus Firewall Alert claims that a program in your computer was blocked from connecting to a remote server, this is actually not true. It is part of an attempt to steal your money by convincing you to pay for a useless, fake anti-virus application named AVASoft Professional Antivirus. The kind of scam used by the AVASoft Professional Antivirus Firewall Alert has been around for several years. However, AVASoft Professional Antivirus is a relative newcomer to rogue security software families, initially detected in 2012. There are several different…

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There has been an additional bogus error message associated with System Repair and the many variants of this rogue defragmenter application. The ‘File system on local disk C contains critical errors’ fake message is displayed in order to frighten inexperienced PC users into buying a ‘full version’ of this useless, fake security application. There are various clones of System Repair and, in fact, this is quite an extensive malware family. Other fake defragmenters that are capable of displaying the ‘File system on local disk C contains critical errors’ fake message include System Restore, File Repair and HDD Restore, among countless…