Rogue antivirus is the winner in the confrontation between the Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown

Malware authors continue to exploit the same social engineering vector of curiosity to lure their victims into endangering their data. Inquiring users employing unprotected systems could be exposed by simply clicking the apparently innocent links related to the election topic.

The M.O. is classical: when clicked, the link of an apparently legitimate Web site displayed in the search results page automatically redirects the browser towards a Web page that infects the unwary user with a variant of System Security Rogue detected by BitDefender as Trojan.FakeAV.ABT.

More information;

 http://www.netfreighters.com.au/docs/Rogue_Malware_ Jan2010.pdf