Malvertised Antivirus: The Shield Deluxe 2009
The Shield Deluxe is an antivirus package that offers an affiliate payout of 30%.
Since this payout is so high it’s no wonder that many rogue affiliates use fake review sites in order to convince you that The Shield Deluxe 2009 is the best Antivirus.
Let’s see what the people who have chosen to install and run The Shield Deluxe say (browse down to the comment sections):
http://download.cnet.com/The-Shield-Deluxe-2009/3000-2239_4-10716264.html
Here’s a screen shot of a “review site” that tries to convice unsuspecting users that the Shield Deluxe is a grade A product
How is this “review site” malvertised? It look’s like someone paid Miva.com for some PPC adverts and Miva delivered their clicks via malware/adware loaded on my PC. It’s no wonder that Miva is a 3rd class PPC advertising solution…look who their “in bed with (malware)”.
http://www.2009softwarereviews.net/default.aspx?refer=Miva&keyword=bestEantivirus
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Congratulations for this important alert!
We all have to keep aware about fake softwares!
It’s time to clean Internet from this kind of software (garbage).
Ahh, the bitdefender ‘09 clone. (look at the second image if you don’t understand)
Just because a product is ‘malvertised’, does that make it a bad program in itself? I use the program and it seems ok to me.
@Jimbo – that’s correct, however the owners of this program need to know that they are getting a very bad reputation because of this.
Good initiative, but I thought you were going to expose ‘fake antimalware’ software like rouges. Sure there are lots of programs that claim to be better than others, but claims are always relative to something. I am more concerned about antivirus software that is nothing but a fake ’scanning…’ animation and people end up paying money and probably even getting their creditcard info stolen by purchasing rouges.
@Dario – I’m exposing products and services that are being advertised via malicious software. It doesn’t matter what the product or service is. I’m not saying the product in question is a fake or a fruad, I’m telling the owners of that product or service…”Hey, take a close look at your affiliates and how their shady advertising tactics may be putting your product or service in a bad light”
Antivirus is just 1 single category. I’m adding dozens more.
I found that rogue on an ad on, unfortunatly your own remove-malware.com Matt, you need to do something about it! You’re site is becoming the thing you’re trying to stop!
@elliotcroft – I’m not intentionally placing their ad on my site. The Google ads are moderated by Google and are random.
Can’t you talk to google and get them to remove the malicious ads?
Are you planning on doing prevention testing on ‘The Shield Deluxe’ since it seems it is legit, and many have it?
@jimbo – no.
@elliotcroft – I can probably filter them out. I’ll take a look.