Fake Windows 8.1 Enterprise Activators Hide Adware, Bitcoin Miners

  • 7 March 2014
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Security experts started warning users about fake Windows 8 key generators and activators ever since Microsoft launched the operating system. As the popularity of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 grows, they attract the attention of more and more cybercriminals and scammers.

Ahasverus, a Softpedia Forum user, has recently reported coming across a fake activator while testing Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation in Virtual Box on a Mac OS X machine.

When searching for Windows 8.1 Enterprise activators on Google, you get a lot of results, most of them leading to all sorts of shady websites. Ahasverus has tested an activator called Windows KMS Activator Ultimate 2014 1.7, which is around 10 Mb in size (compressed).

The activator claims to be able to crack Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. In reality, it can’t activate any of them, but that doesn’t matter since the role of the program is to trick users into installing all sorts of shady software, not to help internauts pirate the operating system.

Most antivirus engines don’t see anything wrong with the so-called activator. However, the user quickly learned that the application was far from being harmless.

Once the process is started, the installer forces users to accept the installation of various other applications: Surftastic (a browser add-on that collects user data and displays ads on websites) and Mobogenie (the app offers Android games, but also accesses SMSs, pictures, and contacts).
 
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