. Date of the original report: October 12, 2020
. Website status: Offline (a takedown report was submitted by Netcraft)
. Scam page used: Trojan.Tech-Support-Scam (impersonated McAfee; Feed The Phish's PC's are protected by Avast)
. Description: This is a fake McAfee virus scan. These Trojans are used in technical support scams and
belong to the Trojan.Tech-Support-Scam family. This window pretends to
be a scan by a McAfee product that states that high risk threats were
detected and that the victim should call the listed tech support number (if
displayed) to fix the issue. It is important to note that this is not an official scan from a McAfee product. McAfee is not involved in any way with this
alert. These fake alerts are in actuality websites designed to behave
like an antivirus program and will only appear within the victims
browser of choice through malicious adverts. Trojans of this type will
also appear even if the victim uses/installed a different antivirus
software.
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