We have noticed rogue antivirus software that pretends to be the AVG Anti-Virus 2011. As usually  social engineering is in use -  well known names (AVG, Microsoft Security Essentials)  and designs of trusted applications are present in order to increase credibility.

Once launched, this malware make users believe that computer is infected with malicious programs that might compromise privacy or damage computer, and of course – threat removal is not free and you are asked to purchase “license”.

…and there is even hardcoded BSOD

Malicious software caused system crash

A problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.

Technical information:

*** STOP: 0x0000008E (0xC0000005,0x92F27DCF,0×99970968,0×00000000)

***   kernel32.dll – Adress 92F27DCF base at 92E40000, DateStamp 4943a3f

Creating crash dump. <b>Please do NOT turn off or reboot computer.</b>

Collecting data for crash dump

Initializing disk for crash dump

Beginning dump of physical memory

Dumping phisical memory to disk

 AVG detects this software (usually as  part of Trojan horse FakeAV family) and related websites are blocked as well.

Ondrej Novotny

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