About: ByteDefender

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

ByteDefender also known as ByteDefender Security 2010 is a scareware rogue malware application on Windows that masquerades as a legitimate antivirus program. It uses a false system scanner that produces large deposits of malware and it attempts to scare the users to purchase the full version of the rogue software for the removal of nonexistent and/or unnecessary spyware items.The name of this antispyware program is used to confuse the user looking for the legitimate Bitdefender before downloading the software.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • ByteDefender also known as ByteDefender Security 2010 is a scareware rogue malware application on Windows that masquerades as a legitimate antivirus program. It uses a false system scanner that produces large deposits of malware and it attempts to scare the users to purchase the full version of the rogue software for the removal of nonexistent and/or unnecessary spyware items.The name of this antispyware program is used to confuse the user looking for the legitimate Bitdefender before downloading the software. Bytedefender Security 2010 may be downloaded as a trojan horse along with possible other antivirus programs. Additionally, ByteDefender comes from WinPC Defender family of rogue antispyware programs. (en)
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 61642121 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 3184 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1120265965 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • ByteDefender also known as ByteDefender Security 2010 is a scareware rogue malware application on Windows that masquerades as a legitimate antivirus program. It uses a false system scanner that produces large deposits of malware and it attempts to scare the users to purchase the full version of the rogue software for the removal of nonexistent and/or unnecessary spyware items.The name of this antispyware program is used to confuse the user looking for the legitimate Bitdefender before downloading the software. (en)
rdfs:label
  • ByteDefender (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is owl:differentFrom of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License