Monday, March 30th, 2009 Experts have discovered a security hole in the computer code that powers the Conficker worm, an aggressive contagion that has spread to more than 12 million Microsoft Windows systems worldwide. The security community is treading lightly with this news, because while the discovery could make it easier to isolate infected ...
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has discovered that the official Web site of Peugeot in Romania has been compromised and is infecting the machines of site visitors with malicious code. Malicious code has been inserted onto the reported page of the site via iframes. These iframes redirect to the pages ...
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Apply all of the browser, application and OS patches you want, your machine still can be completely and silently compromised at the lowest level--without the use of any vulnerability.That was the rather sobering message delivered by a pair of security researchers from Core Security Technologies in a talk at the ...
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Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Windows has, for many years, come with a special mode you can load at boot called Safe Mode. The idea is that non-essential services and software don't load in safe mode and so it can be useful in diagnosing system problems.You might assume that it can be useful in fixing ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Win32/Koobface is a worm that may spread when a user logs into their profile account on the Internet social network sites MySpace, Facebook and others. The following system changes may indicate the presence of this malware:Addition of the following files:%windir%\bolivar19.exe
%windir%\bolivar31.exe
%windir%\bolivar30.exe
%windir%\ld01.exe
%windir%\che08.exe
%windir%\freddy35.exeAnd/or the getting the following message box:March's edition of the Malicious Software Removal ...
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