I wrote a post the other day concerning the fileware malware attack, well it is getting worse. The McAfee VirusScan Online is now reporting over 600,000 machines have been infected by the malware, which is growing everyday. Here is a list of some of the files known to contain the trojan; preview-t-3545425-adult.mpg preview-t-3545425-changing times earth [...]

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Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plug-in that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months. The add-on was a Vietnamese language pack, and though it has been removed from the official Mozilla add-on website, it was undetected until this week. The Firefox 2 Vietnamese [...]

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McAfee has reported “the most significant malware outbreak in three years,” with more than 500,000 detections of a Trojan horse masquerading as a media file. A malicious MPEG or MP3 file which has been propagated through popular file-sharing sites has inflicted major damage. McAfee researchers said they tracked more than half a million instances of [...]

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Yahoo has penned a deal with McAfee to use its SiteAdvisor software to warn users about potentially dangerous websites. The search giant plans to filter out malicious Web sites from its search results using McAfee’s SiteAdvisor software. The new security feature will place a red exclamation mark next to search links McAfee believes are involved [...]

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Today marks 30 years since the birth of that never-ending electronic mail everyone loathes to see in their inbox. Originally called flooding or trashing, spam has grown from a 1978 mass e-mail to a 2008 worldwide nuisance. The first spammer was Gary Thuerk, a salesman for computer firm Digital Electronic Corp. (DEC). Thuerk recognized that [...]

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Trojan.FatObfus.Gen is a Trojan that installs itself and then downloads other Trojans and Malware onto the infected computer. Most of the time, it downloads different version of the Swizzor Trojan or a QHost Trojan. If you do happen to download the swizzor Trojan you may find the following files; Random name files (like 64a892.exe) in [...]

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