![]() “Any kind of popular download will be faked - games, tools, movies, shows or music – look out for Star Wars.” “For example ‘game.of.rar’ would be a likely candidate when the new season will be out in 2016,” Stefan added. The malware writers automatically take some of the items that are most often downloaded by users and create fake releases with exactly the same file name. Getting the right name is a critical part of the scheme. “The malware writers seed the names of actual newly released warez such as tools, movies, shows with malware and then add this to popular download channels like Torrent streams, web pages, Usenet and so on – very likely using an automated process, he explained. ![]() “Monitoring the Usenet for items that have “Avira” in the file name is a good source for brand new malware for me with over 95% of the files being malicious.” “It’s one of my favorite methods to get newly adapted malware,” said Stefan Kurtzhals, anti-malware expert in the Avira Protection Labs department. But, there sometimes is a catch – malware. Torrent and download sites offer an easy way to get everything, including versions of some anti-virus programs like Avira.
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