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US-based Panda Software said the program called DigiKeyGen generates passwords that supposedly enable users to access to pornographic websites. <\/font><\/p>\n

At the same time, a spyware program and an alleged anti-spyware application are installed on a computer without the users’ knowledge, Panda said. <\/font><\/p>\n

It then warns users that their computer is infected and offers them an anti-spyware program to clean the system for 50 dollars. <\/font><\/p>\n

"You must always be suspicious of offers for something in exchange for almost nothing," said Luis Corrons, director of Panda Software Labs, noting that the technique is not new. <\/font><\/p>\n

"Cybercrime, which aims to make easy money, simply applies traditional fraud techniques to the Internet and as a result, anybody tempted by the chance to get something for nothing is taken in, unaware of the risks of apparently harmless actions, such as downloading small programs or accessing certain websites." <\/font><\/p>\n

In a separate security warning, Sophos Labs warned on Tuesday that a security alert claiming to be from Microsoft is in fact a "trojan" that steals passwords. <\/font><\/p>\n

Sophos said that e-mails, which have the subject line "Microsoft WinLogon Service — Vulnerability Issue" and purport to come from patch@microsoft.com, claim that a vulnerability has been found and direct the recipient to download the fix. <\/font><\/p>\n

"However, the link really points to a non-Microsoft website and initiates the download of the Troj\/BeastPWS-C Trojan horse, which is capable of spying on the infected user and stealing passwords," Sophos said. <\/font><\/p>\n

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A new spyware program that lures computer users by claiming to give free access to pornographic Web content ends up by “blackmailing” them into purchasing a program to clean the infection, a security firm said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549003"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}