MooSoft Musings » hoax http://www.moosoft.com/blog The tao of moo Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:35:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Facebook “Unnamed App” Hoax Leads to Rogue AV http://www.moosoft.com/blog/2010/01/27/facebook-unnamed-app-hoax-leads-to-rogue-av/ http://www.moosoft.com/blog/2010/01/27/facebook-unnamed-app-hoax-leads-to-rogue-av/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:17:29 +0000 moosoft http://www.moosoft.com/blog/?p=238 There is a hoax going around on Facebook about a bad application called “Unnamed App.”  This is leading people to Google for information on it which is turning up results for Rogue Anti-Virus.  These Rogue Anti-Virus applications try to trick you into installing them by claiming your computer is infected with a variety of malware.

Credit goes to Peter Kruse for finding this issue.

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