Malware, Rootkits, & Botnets by Christopher Elisan

Author:Christopher Elisan
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
Published: 2012-08-17T04:00:00+00:00

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UAC, as defined by Microsoft, is a security component that allows an administrator to enter credentials during a nonadministrator user session to perform occasional administrative tasks.

Fake AV also has a side business in addition to installing malware in a target user’s system. Most fake AV, like the one that posed as a Mac security product seen in Figure 7-9, even asks user to enter their credit card information as payment for downloading and installing the supposedly genuine antivirus product. This results in a TKO win for the attacker:

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