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F-Secure Malware Information Pages: Hoax
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Summary
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Application files or toolbars that are used to propagate fraud are detected with the prefix Not-Virus:Hoax.
This type of application is not in general overtly malicious. The sole purpose of the application is typically to push the sale of fraudulent software.
Information on e-mail hoaxes can be found from our hoax category pages. |
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Detailed Description
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Hoax programs do not perform as claimed.
For example, a program that claims to remove malicious software but instead only imitates scanning of the hard disk drive is typed as a hoax.
Hoax applications are often used to display fake infection or security warnings. Such programs are sometimes used by adware vendors to persuade people into visiting specific websites and to download the advertised software on those sites.
Rogue antispyware applications are often pushed by hoaxes. For more information see the Rogue antispyware description.
Not-virus:Hoax.HTML
Detections beginning with the prefix "not-virus:Hoax.HTML" are of websites containing fraudulent information.
The site is fraudulent rather than malicious. The antivirus engine is detecting the site's HTML rather than a drive-by-download. |
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Last Modified: April 16, 2008
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