Excel 0-Day Exploited

Tuesday, February 24th, 2009

Symantec is reporting that Trojan.Mdropper.AC is exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in Excel 2007. Earlier versions of Excel may also be vulnerable. The vulnerability is described as a "Boundary Condition Error" and can result in remote code execution, but that's it for details for now. The research is obviously in its early ...

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eBay auction tool website infected with malware

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

A Trojan horse lurking on servers belonging to Auctiva.com, a Web site offering eBay auction tools, infected people's PCs last week. The problem became very public when Google's malware warning system kicked in as people tried to browse the site, saying Auctiva was infected with malware. Google will display an interstitial ...

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Fake parking tickets direct to malicious Web site

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

In a scary online-offline Internet scam hybrid cars in North Dakota have been tagged with fake parking citations that include a Web address hosting malicious software that drops a Trojan onto the computer. The yellow tickets found on the cars in Grand Forks, North Dakota, read: "PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is ...

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Hackers exploit Obama site to spread malware

Monday, January 26th, 2009

A social networking site operated by the 2008 Barack Obama campaign is serving up malware to unwary visitors a full week after the tactic was reported, a security researcher said today. My.BarackObama.com, still active after the innauguration last week of President Obama, is being used by hackers trying to dupe users ...

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Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) Does Have A GUI Afterall

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Yes, Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) really does have a GUI and can be run on-demand. On Windows XP, click Start >Run and type mrt and press Enter.  In Vista, click Start and type mrt into the Search box and press Enter.  This launches the GUI for the tool: Press Next ...

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