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Be aware of malicious typo-squatting..
« on: May 16, 2010, 05:13:02 PM »
Hi malware fighters,

Re: http://securehomenetwork.blogspot.com/2008_03_01_archive.html
Who's typosquatted anyway? Pretty much each and every popular piece of software there is. From Kaspersky, NOD32, Malware Bytes, Avira, AVAST, BitDefender, to Firefox, BitTorrent, Microsoft Office, Winzip, Winrar, and Internet Explorer - for starters. See the list here: http://ddanchev.blogspot.com/2009/07/legitimate-software-typosquatted-in-sms.html
Scan for a typosquatter here: http://aliasencore.com/
Here you have the list for avast.com: http://aliasencore.com/typosquatting-scan?fd=1&dn=avast

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