Malware spreads via children's gaming websites

MALWARE_SPREADS_VIA_CHILDRENS_GAMING_WEBSITES Hackers are increasingly targeting child focused gaming websites, according to a leading anti-virus firm. Anti virus company says it detected malware threats at more than 50 sites that contained "game" or "arcade" in their title. These pages tried to download Javascript infections, redirectors and potentially unwanted software.

"These are sites with mini-games, including flash applications and simple online apps - one example is software that allows girls to dress and change the clothes of characters", the firm's chief technical officer, told.

Cutearcade.com - the most visited site affected with more than 12.500 infection reports. Trojan from the site had redirected users to linuxstabs.com, a known distribution point for malware. Cutearcade.com's owner did not respond to requests for comment.Anti virus company thinks most of the sites affected are businesses, that have fallen victim to hackers and are not created to spread malware. They bases this judgement on the fact that affected pages had been online for long time before anti virus software began detecting threats.

Children's computers are more vulnerable to attacks because they are usually in worse shape. The owners are less likely to have the latest security measures installed. The child may also be less suspicious that something wrong is happening. If a spam-bot infects the computer and keeps sending out spam emails for a long time a young child might not notice it going on.This is an issue that parents should discuss with their children, and also highlights the need for them to ensure that they regularly update the anti-virus and other security software on their children's computers.

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Metropolitan Police virus warning

“METROPOLITAN POLICE” Attention! Illegal activity was revealed!

DON'T PAY - IT'S A VIRUS !!!

This is the fake virus warning which has nothing to do with the Metropolitan Police of Great Britain. This is just the next fraudulent way developed by hackers to collect money from computer users. This virus requires you to immediately send the payment in order to restore control over your infected computer. Cyber criminals change their virus application to suit various countries where they want to get as many victims as they can. So, this time they chose Great Britain as the platform for spreading their virus and reaching their goals.

If your system is contaminated with this type of threat, you will encounter the difference immediately. Your desktop will be substituted permanently with the scareware warning titled as METROPOLITAN POLICE.

It will prevent you from using or even having access to your files, programs and system applications. In fact, you will not be able to use your computer as you normally do. Even if you reboot your computer into Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking you’ll get the same problem.

The virus states that you were noticed while watching illegal pornographic web-pages or having illegaly downloaded files on hard disk and claims that if you don’t pay £60-£75 within 24 hours then your Computer will be wiped clean with all your files and settings being erased or your computer will be locked permanently.

However the virus is not capable of performing what it claims to be able to do. On the other hand, none of us would really want to stand any chance of losing important files or other valuable information, so there is a great probability that some person might actually become the victim of these frauds who developed the Metropolitan Police threat program.

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