Several of us have tried to assist MySpace in eradicating it but, due to MySpace’s very dynamic advertising, it’s difficult to catch all instances – plus the fact that there are various ‘morphs’ of the original “fake scanner virus” (the one shown in 1st screen shot).

As long ago as 8 months, I saw this exact fake scan on several large-name sites – all but Facebook. – I saw it on Yahoo, eBay, NetworkSolutions and MySpace – those are the ones I specifically recall and tried to trace via IE cache, but it’s dicey at times.

And a couple of them are able to download spyware / malware, even to protected systems, because the perpetrators keep changing the code to evade the ‘real’ scanners and anti-malware vendors.

Again, I say PROSECUTE the perpetrators to the fullest extent! Just like “Patient Zero” – in determining the VERY FIRST patient of an oubreak, we need a “Victim Zero” initiative, to find the first happenings of such things like conficker and these fake scanner programs. Ultimately, for the most part, they eventually can be traced back to their originators, either via ‘money trail’ where someone purchased ADs and then infected those ads, or via diligent tracking back to the source via other hard-core investigative techniques.