#WINZIP PRO HAS VIRUS UPDATE#

I hope these people get slapped down like a recent similar scam.Īnother hostname that points to the same website IP is wp. It is astonishing to me that supposedly reputable huge companies like Winzip (owned by Corel) are involved in this kind of scam. also point to 46.4.121.211 and when “systemtools” is visited gives you a similar website to the “advert” one. going by all the things I’ve checked – actually Winzip! running this scam. What worries me is the claim on the website and, multiple times, by the agent on the end of the phone that they are Winzip! I called, as shown in the screenshot above. When a tricked user clicks the link they are taken to “and a sub-page on that domain. It was even served as an advert at the end of a youtube video I had made about this scam! (See the “Important Message” box on the screenshots below).

#WINZIP PRO HAS VIRUS UPDATE#

A required driver is most certainly not missing from my (and many other victims) system.Īnd yet other adverts are clearly written correctly and don’t lie:Īn update / Response from Corel has been added to the end of this post!Įarlier this week I started noticing misleading adverts on some web pages being served by Google Adwords. I don’t understand how they can get away with such clearly inaccurate claims in their advertising.

This time I’m seeing the advertisements on YouTube again. A year later and they are back with the scam scam messages (“A required driver is missing”).

Winzip pro has virus