New Rogueware links identified in many popular entertainment related search queries

MySecurityEngine is a FakeAV (Rougeware) application that seemed to surface towards the end of April. This strain of Rogueware is seeing heavy propagation due to what appears to be a very effective employment of Malicious Search Engine Optimization.

The distributors have been observed achieving very high search rankings for queries on the following topics:

Lost episodes
Friday Night Lights
The Boondocks
The Hills
Family Guy
Iron Man 2
Misc. Popular Musicians
Death of Ronnie James Dio
.. and others

Panda Labs describes the software as:
"MySecurityEngine is an adware program that deceives users warning them of unexisting threats in their computers so that they purchase a certain program that removes them from the computer.

Additionally, it prevents users from accessing certain search engines and from running certain security programs, like antivirus solutions, firewalls, or even fils belonging to fake antivirus programs. It also modifies the searcher that is displayed in the Search option of the Internet Explorer browser.

MySecurityEngine can reach the computer in spam messages containing a link or an attached file, or through malicious websites that have obtained googd positions in the search engines by using BlackHat Seo techniques"

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