Fake Websites Exposed

Dancho Danchev’s Computer Security blog has been releasing consistent posts revealing fake websites on a number of topics. This information is invaluable to identify fake sites claiming to offer a legitimate service or product. In reality, a fake website is either mimicking the template of a genuine company’s webpages, or creating professional looking sites that run malicious code in the background infecting a visitor’s system.

A Diverse Portfolio of Fake Security Software

In this series, Dancho exposes domains, such as antivirus-scanonline.com, xpantivirus.com and other URL’s all parked on a few suspect IP addresses. He followed up this post with two more entries found here and here .