Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A new threat that comes under the guise of a genuine antivirus program has become increasingly prevalent over the past year. Offering to locate and remove malware from your PC, this rogue will actually install a Trojan on your unsuspecting system. The process is usually initiated when you click a ...
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
The world of computer security can be a scary place for friends and foes alike. This weekend users' found their AVG software updated with a new virus definition file. Then they quickly found their computers crashing.
What was discovered was that the new virus definition file mistook user32.dll, a ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Attackers have been using the recently announced vulnerability in Adobe Reader 8 to attack Windows users, warn security experts from ISC (Internet Storm Center). The attackers are exploiting the util.printf JavaScript function to trigger a buffer overload. A PDF containing the malicious code was recognised by over 30 virus scanners ...
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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
Do-it-all suites are the name of the security game these days. Sure, you can gather free programs that cover the bases much as a suite would, but who wants to bother with finding out which apps work together and which ones might leave you pulling your hair out?We do. And ...
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
This morning we detected another spam campaign with the aim of enticing users into downloading and executing a file they believe is a 6 month trial of a product called “Anti-Virus Nero Advanced Pro 2009“. When analyzed further the file is actually a variation of the rouge antivirus application known ...
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