Doing my daily Blog reading, what do I find? AntiVermins.

OK, what is AntiVermins?

Antivermins is one of the most hi-tech, visible achievements on development of the software of protection all over the world, which guarantee to you safe use of the Internet resources and just any information which can be infected with Spyware. Its popularity is known almost all large companies and home’s users in many countries. Just remember: you not safe from Spyware if you have only Anti-virus and FireWall programs. You are still being unprotected without special Anti-Spyware program, the most dangerous online threat.

Wait a minute, that has got to be some of the worst English; I have ever seen. That would probably be because English is not the native language of the writer. Good chance that Russian is their native tongue. Russian? How would I know that? The registration data for the domain:

Registration Service Provided By: ESTDOMAINS INC
Contact: +1.3027224217
Website: http://www.estdomains.com

Domain Name: ANTIVERMINS.COM

Registrant:
N/A
Alex Konchekov (alex.konchekov@gmail.com)
Russia, 119334, Vernadskogo pr, 16-67
Moscow
Moskovskaya oblast,119334
RU
Tel. +007.3100240

Creation Date: 02-May-2006
Expiration Date: 02-May-2007

Domain servers in listed order:
ns2.antivermins.com
ns1.antivermins.com

AntiVermins IP address: 85.255.119.66

Alex Konchekov from Moscow, Russia; cool. Probably not his real name anyway.

Familiar hosting company at that:

Inhoster hosting company
OOO Inhoster, Poltavskij Shliax 24, Kharkiv, 61000, Ukraine
Abuse notifications to: abuse@inhoster.com

Many ‘Rogue” applications are coming from the ESTDOMAINS hosted on Inhoster servers.

I paided a vist to the AntiVermins Website, and had a look at several pages on the site and here is some of the information I found.

What is AntiVermins

Antivermins is one of the most hi-tech, visible achievements on development of the software of protection all over the world. Its basic applicability is to relieve you of dangerous programs, which destroy your system.

Ah, OK. Let’s see if I can decipher that statement. I’m not really sure what they are trying to communincate with that first sentence, but with the second; they are obviously stating that this program is supposed to rid your system of dangerous programs that can destroy your system.

Considering that this program affords no protection, what so ever; I fail to see how it could possibly rid your system of “dangerous” programs.

About 92% of all PC are infected by viruses which can’t be identifying by your antiviral program.

92%? I have no idea where they came up with that, but the rest of the statement is true.

Nobody safe today! Who may say his PC is not infected?

Pure FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt). Well, maybe not complete FUD. If one has the appropriate protections in place and excercises safe computer habits, there is a reasonable expectation that the system is not infected. There is no 100% guarantee that a system will be infection free, when one takes the appropriate measures to protect their system. See Protect Yourself From Malware: Tools And Tips.

I think I am going to stop quoting the site at this point, the poor command of the English language and trying to decipher what they mean is giving me a headache; and I received a “Classical” education which included being taught Oxford English.

I lied, one more quote:

These viruses get to inexperienced user through “free-of-charge” software products more often.

Too funny, considering that their piece of garbage will cost you $49.95 USD. It doesn’t have to be “Free” to infect your system.

Here’s a screenshot of what the program looks like:

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