Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months.
Because of a virus infection, the Vietnamese language pack for Firefox 2 was polluted with adware, Mozilla security chief Window Snyder said in a blog ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Adware pushers have found a new way to trick you into downloading their annoying products: fake MP3 files.
On Tuesday, security vendor McAfee reported that it's seen a huge spike in fake MP3 files spreading on peer-to-peer networks. Although the files have names that make them look like audio recordings, they're ...
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Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Criminals changed tactics in the last six months of 2007, dropping malicious email in favour of Web-based attacks, according to data reported to Microsoft by Windows users.
The company saw the number of Trojan downloader programs it removed from Windows machines jump by 300 percent, according to Jimmy Kuo, principal architect ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Up to 80% of Web sites flagged as malicious by antivirus and search engine indexes are legitimate businesses, according to security experts.
Experts said while the security industry is on top of conventional spam and phishing attacks, more effort needs to be put into preventing and eliminating so-called drive-by-downloads.
The attacks allow ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
The first thing I suspect when someone tells me that their PC is running slowly is that they may be dealing with adware or spyware. Typically, a computer infected with this type of malware will display other symptoms as well. Odd behavior such as pop-up ads, your internet home page ...
Posted in General BS, Hardware, Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | 2 Comments
Monday, April 7th, 2008
A loyal ISC reader pointed us to this note from AUSCERT. The basic story is that HP has optional "floppy USB keys" for some of their Proliant servers. The 256 KB and 1 GB versions include a batch that also came with 'W32.Fakerecy' or W32.SillyFDC' designed to infect your machine ...
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Around a tenth of all malware is designed to use portable storage media, such as removable USB drives, as an attack and spread vector.
Security firm ESET said that 10.3 per cent of malware detections last month were identified as files containing information on programs to be run automatically when removable ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
This page was designed to be PC Sympathy's One-Stop Source for protecting your PC, online and offline, from viruses and other malicious programs that you may encounter.
Each section below will provide you with the resources you need for various levels of protection. While there are many choices out there, ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
Last week's massive IFRAME injection attack is slowly turning into a what looks like a large scale web application vulnerabilities audit of high profile sites. Following the timely news coverage, Symantec's rating for the attack as medium risk, StopBadware commenting on XP Antivirus 2008, and US-CERT issuing a warning about ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Wondering if your favorite peer-to-peer file-swapping program has spyware bundled into it? Chances are good that it does.
The information on this page is believed to be accurate. However, if any program is listed under the wrong section, please let me know immediately. If you know of a file sharing ...
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