ANTIVIRUS VENDORS TARGETED.

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Author: Naraine, Ryan

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ANTIVIRUS VENDORS TARGETED

Typosquatters are registering misspelled domains of antivirus vendors and making money by redirecting surfers with Google's AdSense pay-per-click program.

The startling discovery was made by Finnish security vendor F-Secure Corp., a company that's being targeted in the elaborate scam. In a notice posted online, F-Secure's director of antivirus research, Mikko Hypponen, said unknown typosquatters operating out of Panama have registered more than 150 domain names with slight тА" almost unnoticeable тА" variations of the target URL. For example, instead of the legitimate wwwf-secure.com, the domains "www-f-secure.com" and "wwwf-secure .com" have been registered and set up to point to"nortpnantivirus.com" тА" a misspelling of Symantec Corp.'s Norton AntiVirus. The misspelled domains registered by the scammers include f-secue.com, mesagelabs.com, mcafeeantiviru.com, bitdefneder.com, pestpatorl.com, and centralcomand.com.

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By Ryan Naraine

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