The second issue is a little different. We’ve noticed a site registered with a name that suggests it belongs to ESET, offering downloads of what are claimed to be downloads of not only our products, but those of a number of other major antimalware companies. In fact, the binary turns out to be an NSIS script that instructs the recipient to send a short code to a premium-rate texting service. (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS) is a freely-available script-driven Windows installation system.) We see frequent complaints about such services apparently charging randomly for unrequested downloads such as ring tones, screensavers and so on.
Read the full article
http://www.eset.com/threat-center/blog/?p=575
I blogged about this in late 2008, and RapidSwitch are still the scum that are hosting a whole slew of these (nice to know they give a toss);
http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2008/09/242-reasons-to-avoid-781291429.html
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