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Fake 'PlayStation Emulator' Drops Trojan - SPAMfighter News

Posted: 19 Mar 2010 02:23 AM PDT

Fans of Retro games are confronting attacks from a new scareware scam that cyber-criminals have devised to load a Trojan onto people's PCs.

As said by the security Researcher Chris Boyd at Sunbelt Software, downloads pretending to be PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulators, which help to play games online, pertaining to Sony's console, actually just produce a Trojan. For instance, the Appzkeygen.com offered emulators, arrive bundled with Trojan CodecPack-2GCash-Gen, as per the news published by The Register on March 11, 2010.

There are three flavors of the PS2 software known as Play 2 Emulator- "keygen," "serial" and "crack." Evidently, instead of being emulators, the files are actually something scarier.

Boyd reported that these files are planted on the target computer along with an arbitrarily named .exe file within the Windows directory as well as xpysys.dll within the PC's System32 Folder, according to the news published by Tom's GUIDE on March 11, 2010.

Scammers installing the Trojan highly prefer it to disable security software. In addition to the emulators being dubious, searching online for the programs exposes the surfers to every type of undesirable fraud, said security experts..

Moreover, according to Boyd, the flexible nature of the programs implies that they'll prove as dangerous in multiple ways in the forthcoming period. Over the past few months, Trojan-Downloader.Win32.CodecPack.2GCash.Gen has been incorporated into all sorts of scams from rogue anti-virus campaigns to bogus codec schemes. Further, the malware is expected to stay for a long period of time.
Boyd added that in certain instances, gamers complained of the attack causing the appearance of a rogue AV program on their hijacked computer. However, when tested, the systems displayed nothing as downloaded. This doesn't imply a rogue AV will not be downloaded, as the downloader continues to be onboard.

Meanwhile, it isn't something new that scareware is targeting Playstation gamers. Security investigators at FaceTime Security Labs showed a scareware Trojan that infected PlayStation 3 in May 2009. The malware made a spurious "My Computer" directory along with a JavaScript pop-up, which displayed a message that the user's PC was infected with worms. The result was possible file damage and data loss.

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Posted: 18 Mar 2010 12:38 PM PDT

Jeez, you guys...

MegaMan_N*8
Posted: 2010-03-18 16:26:49.647

Any body with half a brain can download a version of MAME with a GUI and use a HQx4 effect on the game while they play it. Not only will it be arcade perfect and look exceptional on modern displays, but the best part is it will be free. Oh and for those people who really like the cabinet art visible while they play, just add the appropriate bezel to your artwork files and boom! there you go. You have suceesfully avoided paying Fony or Microsux anymore of your hard earned money...

or you can just download the game from them and save yourself the trouble, MAME is kind of a tricky bastard at times.

PS everone saying the graphics have not been improved need glasses. While they havent been redrawn as in the case of SSF2T, they have been upscaled which would lead me to think that running this game without the artwork and fitting it on a modern widescreen might be done through stretching, which sux. I know the current emulator I use to play any arcade games will display any games in native resouloution (4:3) with black vertical bars on both sides of the games screen, and will also display it in widescreen with black horizontal bars on the top and bottom. In widescreen any large sprites become "squashed" looking and do not retain the same look or values. The only way to over come this is to enable stretching in the games native resoloution which in turn makes the screen a pixelated mess. Which at that point scalers and shaders become handy to smooth things out a bit and make it pretty again but can also make it just as bad looking in the blurriness department.

I dont know why I posted this, I guess it just drives me batshit crazy when big game companies use these little shithead emu programmers ideas to combat the piracy going on but then they deliver us this kind of shit and they thnk people are going to just eat it up.

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