Trojan.Qhost.WU
I had an email from a reader who has managed to get a trojan on their PC, here is some details of the trojan and a link for more details and a free trojan scan.
Trojan.Qhost.WU installs itself and modifies the infected computers hosts file. By editing the hosts file, it redirects Google Adsense links to [...]

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Two Mac viruses were discovered over the weekend. SecureMac and Intego Security reported that Trojans in the wild have the potential to cause serious damage to Mac desktops. One comes wrapped in a poker application and the second, and more nefarious, takes advantage of the ARDAgent.
AppleScript.THT comes either as a 3.1 MB application dubbed AStht_v06 [...]

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Two Orange County teenagers have been charged with breaking into school computers, installing spyware and altering grades. Omar Khan and Tanvir Singh, both 18-years old, face more than just a trip down to the Principal’s office as they are both charged for breaking into and then hacking Tesoro High School computers in Orange County California.
Singh [...]

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Microsoft has hired Paul Laudanski, the man behind the anti-phishing Castlecops.com Web site, to help with the software company’s phishing and spam investigations. He will be working for the Live Consumer Services group focusing on phishing, spam and general service abuse.
Laudanski, a former volunteer firefighter, announced the move on Castlecops.com last week, saying that he’s [...]

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Evidence from the Metropolitan Police’s computer crime unit has helped to convict Robert Matthew Bentley for infecting a company’s network of computers in Europe with “adware” that cost thousands of pounds to detect and repair.
The hijacked PCs were used to attack other computers and install programs that plagued users with pop-up adverts. He was caught [...]

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Thirty-eight people in the U.S. and Romania have been charged in two indictments alleging they used complicated Internet phishing schemes to steal thousands of credit and debit card numbers, U.S. and Romanian authorities announced Monday.
The alleged ring aimed to bilk thousands of unwitting consumers and hundreds of financial institutions, according to indictments unsealed in Los [...]

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Hong Kong domain has jumped 28 places as the most dangerous place to surf and search on the web according to a new McAfee report called “Mapping the Mal Web Revisited” which was released recently. Hong Kong takes the mantle from Tokelau, a tiny island of 1,500 inhabitants in the South Pacific.
The report reveals that [...]

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