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Archive for November 24th, 2008

Bogus ‘HouseCall’ Search Results Lead to Adware

Given the popularity of Trend Micro’s free online scanner HouseCall, it shouldn’t be a surprise that hackers are now trying to exploit it for their benefit.
Advanced Threats Researcher Ivan Macalintal found this unwelcome search result that comes up when a user searches for “free online virus scan by Trend Micro” in Google:

Figure 1. Fake HouseCall [...]

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