Stop Sign Antivirus a scam?

[arson]

Anyone familiar with Stop Sign AV? Other than seeing it advertised
during TSS on Tech TV, I've never heard of it. My bud and his wife
said their computer is a bit slow. They've run Adaware, Spybot and
scanned computer with Norton and the defs are current and didin't find
anything. They went to Stop Sign and did an online scan and it found 2
Trojans.Anyone know if this is a scam to get you to buy their
software?

 

[Ionizer]

Anyone familiar with Stop Sign AV? Other than seeing it advertised
during TSS on Tech TV, I've never heard of it. My bud and his wife
said their computer is a bit slow. They've run Adaware, Spybot and
scanned computer with Norton and the defs are current and didin't find
anything. They went to Stop Sign and did an online scan and it found 2
Trojans.Anyone know if this is a scam to get you to buy their
software?

It took a bit of searching for a URL, but I think this is what you're
referring to: http://www.eacceleration.com/

During my search however, I found an animated series of discussions about
Stop Sign, including: http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10923083 and
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,8078326~mode=flat?hilite=StopSign
Those threads include links to other discussions of Stop Sign, and they
all sound *extremely* negative at first glance.

 

[Ionizer]

Spyware-Guide is sceptical of it:
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=459 They categorize it as
"generic malware." PestPatrol has info about it also- the pages seem to
be unavailable but are still in the Google cache:
http://www.google.com/search?q=EAnthology

Regards,
Ian.

 

[john smith]

yes its a scam with false positives with the weirdest names in the weirdest
files

id advise against there pop-up blocker too

 

[me]

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Anyone familiar with Stop Sign AV? Other than seeing it
advertised during TSS on Tech TV, I've never heard of it.
My bud and his wife said their computer is a bit slow.
They've run Adaware, Spybot and scanned computer with
Norton and the defs are current and didin't find anything.
They went to Stop Sign and did an online scan and it found
2 Trojans.Anyone know if this is a scam to get you to buy
their software?

Considered rogue and/or suspect
" ... company has employed deceptive advertising & drive-by-
downloads, and has removed/disabled competing apps; false
positives work as goad to purchase; questionable privacy policy
& EULA ..."

J

 

[Matt]

bad bad stuff- usually bundled with some
E-anthology malware.

 

[Julian Moss]

Spyware-Guide is sceptical of it:
http://www.spywareguide.com/product_show.php?id=459 They categorize
it as "generic malware." PestPatrol has info about it also- the
pages seem to be unavailable but are still in the Google cache:
http://www.google.com/search?q=EAnthology

Regards,
Ian.

After encountering one user who had installed this and got megabytes of
junk downloaded onto his computer under the guise of a "Windows Update"
that Stop Sign alerted him to, I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.