Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
Windows has, for many years, come with a special mode you can load at boot called Safe Mode. The idea is that non-essential services and software don't load in safe mode and so it can be useful in diagnosing system problems.
You might assume that it can be useful in fixing ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Websense Security Labs ThreatSeeker Network has received reports of spoofed Facebook email messages that contain malicious links. The messages look similar to legitimate Facebook messages and invite recipients to click on the link contained in the message to view a video.
Message subjects seen have been:
FaceBook message: Dancing Girl Drunk In ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
Win32/Koobface is a worm that may spread when a user logs into their profile account on the Internet social network sites MySpace, Facebook and others. The following system changes may indicate the presence of this malware:
Addition of the following files:
%windir%\bolivar19.exe
%windir%\bolivar31.exe
%windir%\bolivar30.exe
%windir%\ld01.exe
%windir%\che08.exe
%windir%\freddy35.exe
And/or the getting the following message box:
March's edition of the Malicious Software Removal ...
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Symantec’s ongoing monitoring of Downadup (a.k.a. Conficker) has today resulted in the observation of a completely new variant being pushed out to systems that are already infected with Downadup. After taking into account the hype surrounding some other recent reports of variants of Downadup, Symantec is calling this new variant ...
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Thursday, March 5th, 2009
It's malware that actually removes other malware from its victims' PCs. And so far, nobody is exactly sure how it's being distributed.
Security experts this week are buzzing about a new Trojan called Tigger.A, also known as Syzor. The data-stealing malware has quietly claimed about 250,000 victims since it was first ...
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