Does the following screenshot look familiar to you? It sure does to us here at Symantec because it looks nearly identical to our Norton 2009 product. However, it is actually a misleading application we detect as Trojan.Fakeavalert.
The website that is used by the security risk to corral users to purchase rogue software looks suspiciously like our Norton site as well:
Besides using our brand name and Nortel's, there is another interesting trick that I thought would be worth a mention so no one gets fooled by this scam. Once infected with the security risk, the computer may suddenly explain that the user has a spyware infection and the following blue screen may appear:
