The FakeSecScan virus. You may know it as another name, such as Windows Antivirus 2010 or some other generic-but-legitimate sounding name. It pretends to be an anti-virus application that scans and finds viruses on your computer. The problem is, the program itself is the virus and it is lying about the other infections that is has “found.” I’ve blogged about this all the way back in 2008 but since FakeSecScan continues to be one of [...]

This post links to a free download of a document that I created to help users identify and avoid infection of the Win32/FakeSecScan virus. I encourage everyone to download, print, and distribute as many copies as they like. I think it will prove very useful!