Published in November 18th, 2008
An Orlando company has been ordered not to sell keylogger spyware by a district court. The company, Cyberspy Software, LLC, marketed a product called RemoteSpy keylogger spyware to customers, who in turn were enabled to secretly monitor unsuspecting users computers.
The Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint (PDF) against Florida-based CyberSpy Software on November 5, alleging [...]
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Published in November 5th, 2008
The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) from Microsoft is a product that is definitely worth having in your arsenal against malware and spyware.
Microsoft have been improving this product over the years and it’s now a pretty decent malware removal tool. It is compatible with Windows VIsta, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Server 2003. It can [...]
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Published in October 16th, 2008
A Taiwan discount personal computer manufacturer has begun a voluntary recall of desktop computers delivered to Japan after it found they had been infected with a virus before shipment.
ASUSTek Computer Inc. has shipped about 4,500 Eee Box desktop PCs to Japan, selling about 300 at retail outlets nationwide since their launch here on Oct. 2.
The [...]
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Published in September 19th, 2008
Hackers have broken into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account and posted many of the messages and email addresses of Palin’s family and friends to other sites across the Internet.
Screengrabs and what appears to be a full listing of her email contacts have been posted on the web, including on WikiLeaks, raising concerns about the vulnerability [...]
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Published in August 26th, 2008
This is a new worm that attacks any version of Windows. The worm spreads itself by attaching to any type of fixed or removable hard drive, A-Z.
If you are infected, the worm will create the following files:
C:\lo.tmp
%SYSTEM%\wuauclt.exe
%SYSTEM%\dllcache\wuauclt.exe
%SYSTEM%\wsotdet.dll
%SYSTEM%\wssndet.dll
It will also drop autorun files on drives that it infects.
The worm also edits the Windows Registry so that [...]
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Published in August 21st, 2008
This is a Trojan that hides itself as a common media file. When the user attempts to open the file, it then downloads malware from an external server. The malware installed on the system will then lead to further serious problems.
If a user attempts to open this trojan, Windows Media Player will open, but it [...]
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Published in July 31st, 2008
Yet another round of spam e-mails that instructs recipients to click on a link that downloads a virus is making the rounds. This time the e-mails include a link that contains an article about the FBI and the popular social networking site, Facebook.
The FBI is following reports of recent spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm [...]
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Published in July 29th, 2008
The latest high risk adware currently infecting PCs is known as Adware.PlayMP3z.B
This form of adware is disguised as a codec for viewing media files, or for listening to audio files. As mentioned in an earlier post, beware of any media file that requires any type of download in order to play. Adware.PlayMP3z.B will prompt the [...]
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Published in July 24th, 2008
Key Government websites in the UK have been infected by cyber-criminals aiming to steal browsers’ personal details, it was reported today.
Eastern European hackers are suspected of placing the Asprox virus on more than a thousand British websites, including those run by the NHS and a local council, in the past two weeks. Experts described the [...]
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Published in July 17th, 2008
McAfee has recently reported that a very large number of fake MP3 files have been spreading across P2P networks. The bad news is that one of these MP3 files can very easily infect your PC with dangerous malware or viruses.
The infection is not limited to MP3 files, but can also be present in MPG video [...]
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