Pcprotect.name Uses Old, Fake Virus Scare

trojan horse malware

Pcprotect dot name is the domain name of a misleading website that uses fake but scary messages to propagate intrusive and potentially dangerous ads.

Pcprotect dot name is not a page you can find in a search engine through regular means. You probably landed on it after clicking a rogue link on a different site.

The site will display a series of images skinned and doctored to look like the interface of a legitimate antivirus product. Those images will contain scary messages about your system being infected with multiple viruses. All of this is fake.

In fact, if you attempt to directly type "pcprotect dot name" in your address bar right now, Chrome will inform you that you are about to visit a known phishing website and will block you from visiting the site in the first place.

This should be a sufficient warning to keep you from ever going past the automated warnings and opening the dangerous page in the first place.

Similar sites use fake messages to either phish out user information in fake forms, or to spread unsolicited ads sourced from rogue ad networks. Neither of those is a thing you want to have to deal with. Thankfully, in the case of Pcprotect dot name, the site has already been blacklisted.

July 12, 2022
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