AVprofit: Rogue AV + Zeus = $
Summary: Affiliates who sign up with avprofit.com get an installer that drops both rogue anti-virus and the ZeuS banking Trojan, and Avprofit pays them about $1 per install, or roughly $1,000 per 1,000 distributions. Avprofit's internal stats show about 4 percent of victims buy the fake software; one affiliate logged 1,482 installs, 66 sales and $1,650 in commissions on Feb. 28, and VirusTotal found only 16 of 42 anti-virus products flagged a recent installer copy as malicious.
Bottom line: ZeuS is described here as the malware directly responsible for helping thieves steal tens of millions of dollars from small to mid-sized businesses over the past year, and the same Gmail address tied to avprofit.com also registered updatekernel.com, the site the installer contacted to pull the Trojan.
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