A new round of the FakeAlert family has been released this past weekend, the same family of rogueware components that Alex Eckelberry of Sunbelt has posted. We are seeing a surge in hits for new components installed as “MultiMedia Software” codecs that result in a barrage of popups identifying “Spyware.

Of course, there was no spyware on these clean lab systems prior to the codec install, and no legitimate video codecs were installed on the machine as a result of running the setup.exe program. ThreatFire Research Blog: Fake alert for Spyware.CyberLog-X

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