Monday, February 23rd, 2009 A Trojan horse lurking on servers belonging to Auctiva.com, a Web site offering eBay auction tools, infected people's PCs last week.The problem became very public when Google's malware warning system kicked in as people tried to browse the site, saying Auctiva was infected with malware. Google will display an interstitial ...
Posted in Coding, Internet, Security, Software | No Comments
Friday, February 20th, 2009 The criminals behind the widespread Conficker worm have released a new version of the malware that could signal a major shift in the way the worm operates.The new variant, dubbed Conficker B++, was spotted three days ago by SRI International researchers, who published details of the new code on Thursday. ...
Posted in Internet, Security | No Comments
Sunday, February 8th, 2009 On Monday, OpenDNS, the free DNS service, plans to start blocking the Conficker worm's attempts to connect to potential control servers. According to The Register, the new free service will also be able to alert administrators to the presence of the Conficker worm and assist them in locating infected machines.Conficker ...
Posted in Internet, Networking, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Thursday, January 29th, 2009 The odds are pretty good that this will never happen to you, but should a floating head of U.S. President Barack Obama pop up on your desktop Monday morning, know this: You've been hit with the Obama worm.The worm was spotted this past Monday after it infected PCs at a ...
Posted in Internet, Privacy, Security | No Comments
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Drives such as USB sticks infected with the virus trick users into installing the worm, according to researchers.The "Autoplay" function in Vista and early versions of Windows 7 automatically searches for programs on removable drives.However, the virus hijacks this process, masquerading as a folder to be opened. When clicked, the ...
Posted in Coding, Hardware, Networking, Privacy, Security, Windows | No Comments
