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Beware the 'Nasty' Weather Wizard!!
« on: February 14, 2016, 04:49:44 PM »
https://blog.malwarebytes.org/fraud-scam/2016/02/a-weather-app-with-a-twist/


The app itself does not do much more than give you the weather in a certain US zip code. You type in the ZIP code and it will tell you what you are missing.


The Tech Support Scam

But what it does in the background is more worthy of the super villain reference. A bat file call sc.bat sets two Scheduled Tasks to work.




 

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