Antivirus 2009: Spawn of Scum-Sucking Maggots

Recently, we’ve become aware that a malicious program called Antivirus 2009 has appeared in ads on CarDomain. This piece of garbage is one of those awful pop up things designed to look like a Windows dialog box. In the event you see it on your machine, the best way to insure you don’t get bitten is to close the page immediately. Malware is kind of like a vampire—if you don’t invite it in, it can’t hurt you. If you’re so inclined, you can send a screen shot to Community_Admin—it might help us track down the scum-sucking maggots—but just reporting when and where you encountered it is fine too. Now, it’s important to know this kind of crap isn’t being done by lonely hacker kids for kicks. In countries like Russia and China, malware has gone corporate, and every infected machine helps them send out the billions of spam messages pitching everything from "male enhancement" to "university diplomas." In a perfect world, every person involved in one of these operations would end up like Russian spam Czar Vardan Kushnir, who was beaten to death in his apartment back in 2005. Think I’m being too harsh? Whatever. The people behind this are sub-human garbage, as evidenced by what Kushnir’s domestic counterpart did yesterday. But since inflicting evil software on people isn’t grounds for justifiable homicide—yet—we’ll just have to be content with tracking down the agency that’s letting this stuff slip through their system, and tell them we’ll never pay them another dime. Ever. Of course, if you have any other questions or comments about CarDomain, don’t hesitate to contact us at Feedback_Suggestion—we want to hear from you!