Yes, in the future we could have an "Oh, noooooes" situation but somehow I find that unlikely. Far more likely is a tit for tat war between criminal groups and this is the first shot in such a battle. Not the first time either.
Mystery hacker hijacks Dridex Trojan botnet... to serve antivirus installer
Part of the distribution channel of the Dridex banking Trojan botnet may have been hacked, with malicious links replaced by installers for Avira Antivirus. Avira reckons the pwnage is down to the work of an unknown white hat hacker. The Dridex botnet has remains a menace even after a high profile takedown operation in late …
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Friday 5th February 2016 06:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Finally
Before now, when getting a spam inviting me to click on a link to a fake PayPal or eBay login page on a compromised FTP server, I have sometimes modified the page to do various things including change the email address where stolen information is sent to to spoof@..., disable the submit button, and on one occasion added a refresh tag to tell the victim's browser to immediately load the genuine page.
AC because, obvious really.
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Friday 5th February 2016 20:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Using Avira for 6 years
Avira historically always stays at top position (usually 1-3) from detection rate. It has 99.9% detection rate in real world tests. Only Kaspesky and Bitdefender have this same score(but both have only paid version). If you care about top level PC security(as much as you can get for free), not much about eye-candy, then Avira should be your 1st option. People usually think that more expensive products might be better that cheap/free one. Sometimes there are some exceptions.