Showy malware pushes rogue anti-malware product

MonaRonaDona trojan leads searchers to remover scam.

An infection which advertises its presence using the name ‘MonaRonaDona’ is leading victims to search for a cure – and many of them are finding a targeted rogue anti-malware application widely promoted on the web as a dedicated fix for the problem.

In stark contrast to the stealth practised by most modern malware, the infection makes itself very clear to users of infected systems, shutting down a raft of core applications including most of

Microsoft

‘s

Office

suite and popping up a message boasting of the infection, claiming to carry a political message about human rights abuses.

With the self-applied name ‘MonaRonaDona’ clearly advertised, users searching for the string are likely to find sites pushing an apparent anti-malware product called

Unigray

. This operates in the standard manner of the genre, alerting on numerous spurious infections on clean systems, including false positive alerts on the ‘MonaRonaDona’ name, and requiring a payment for a fully functioning version supposedly capable of cleaning the ‘infections’.

Readers are advised only to use security software with a solid reputation and a strong history in independent testing. Full details of the

Unigray

scam are in a

Kaspersky Labs

blog entry

here

.

Posted on 04 March 2008 by

Virus Bulletin