Okay, that's not exactly what happened here. But an interesting (and fairly inventive) use of an everyday web app by a teen convinced something bad was about to happen......

SpywareRemover 2009 is another annoying malware. It loads plenty of pop-ups alerting users about fictional computer parasites. It is presented as anti-spyware, but it is installed by trojans. These practices should make it easy to see fraudulent origin of SpywareRemover2009; however, some people may step into this trap. Once Spyware Remover is installed on a ...

Trojan.FraudLoad is a downloader trojan. Its main function is downloading and installing other malwares. FraudLoad may install other trojans or fake security programs. Trojan.FraudLoad doesn’t have a destructive payload, but it might cause severe problems. This trojan may give remote attacker a passage to the infected system. The attacker may then steal personal information, passwords ...

Trojan.Downloader.Dabew or simply Dabew is old-fashioned trojan. It loads pop-ups, it downloads malwares, it allows remote access and makes victims life miserable in a mater of days. Trojan.Downloader.Dabew is one of those annoying trojans that display system tray alerts similar to MS Windows messages. The alert usually reports security issues and encourages user to download anti-virus/anti-spyware ...

Renamehomepage.com/security is browser hijacker which redirects its victims to either renamehomepage.com/security/vista or renamehomepage.com/security/xp. The pages are slightly different but they are both fraudulent and dedicated to promoting fake security programs. Renamehomepage.com/security hijacker may limit access of other websites except for the malicious renamehomepage.com. It is difficult to close a web browser while visiting renamehomepage.com because the ...

Antivirus Trigger is another gift brought to you by Vundo trojan. It may also come as a bonus of pirated software distributed on bad reputation websites. AntivirusTrigger is a fake security tool. It offers computer protection and it might look like functional program, but the facts tell us it is useless. Antivirus Trigger is a ...