Woah! It has been more than six months since the Malwarebytes team has blogged. We apologize for taking so long but our new program Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware was in development and took up most of our time. Now that the program was released we have a lot more time on our hands for other things, like blogging.

I would love to start the day by announcing that everything in the malware world is just dandy, unfortunately I would be lying. Since our time away from the blog, hundreds of new rogues have been released - and this week has not been any different. A new rogue reared its ugly head and its name was VirusHeat.

VirusHeat is just your average rogue - planting malware and then pretending to detect it. It generates false positives and then makes you pay to remove them. Just look at it - looks like your typical rogue:

VirusHeat

We have provided removal instructions for anybody unfortunate to have downloaded this application.

Removal instructions for VirusHeat

Marcin Kleczynski