Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Makers of antispyware and antivirus programs, pay attention to this article.
An ugly trend is developing in the world of antispyware. It is my belief that, very soon, all current tools and methods used to detect and remove malware will become obsolete. Very soon, malware will be able to load ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I have had email conversations with a number of people at Sunbelt Software about the ID theft ring they discovered recently. They were kind enough to provide a HijackThis log entry that identifies the keylogger. I promised not to publish it but said I would warn the helpers at the ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
I now have even greater sympathy for people suffering a spyware infection than ever before. I spent the better part of Tuesday night fighting off the worst spyware infection I have ever seen or heard of.
Someone was kind enough to donate a copy of VMWare for me to use ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Having been a player in the spyware world for so long, nothing really should surprise me anymore. Still, this shocked me. It seems that web sites designed for children visitors are most likely to try to install spyware and/or browser hijackers.
I really can't put my finger on why this surprises ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Mike Healan
March 23, 2004
If you've ever been infected with a browser hijacker, you know what an infuriating situation it is. For all intents and purposes, your $3,000 computer is converted into a source of revenue for some fly-by-night web site unable to generate legitimate web traffic. Once ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Heads up for those who link to or recommend HijackThis, CWShredder, the Coolwebsearch Chronicles, or to any other file at http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/. Merijn has his own web site now, located at http://www.merijn.org/. All of his files can now be found there.
Here are the most common files accessed on his site.
http://www.merijn.org/files/hijackthis.zip
http://www.merijn.org/files/cwshredder.zip
http://www.merijn.org/cwschronicles.html
http://www.merijn.org/htlogtutorial.html
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
HijackThis examines certain key areas of the Registry and Hard Drive and lists their contents. These are areas which are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. It's up to you to decide what should be removed. Some items are perfectly fine. You should not remove them. Never remove everything. ...
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