Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Microsoft is advising people to run its Word application in "safe mode" to help guard against a Trojan horse that surfaced recently, though security experts on Wednesday said there still appears little cause for alarm.
"The good news is that it doesn't seem to be very widespread," said Graham Cluley, a ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Internet search engines are now one of the commonest means by which malware spreads, a new study has suggested.
The study carried out by McAfee?s spyware expert Ben Edelman using the company?s SiteAdvisor tool, analysed common searches on all the Net?s major search engines, Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL and Ask.
The ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Does your antispyware software really work? With security experts warning of "rogue" antispyware products that sometimes do more harm than good, two security researchers have decided to take matters into their own hands.
They're working on a new software product, called Spycar, that will test the effectiveness of antispyware applications. "We ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Virus hunters have discovered a new Trojan that encrypts files on an infected computer and then demands $300 in ransom for a decryption password. The Trojan, identified as Cryzip, uses a commercial zip library to store the victim's documents inside a password-protected zip file and leaves step-by-step instructions on how ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
Peter Shinbach recently threw in the towel and shut down Bach Door, his online-communications blog.The public relations executive from Birmingham, Michigan, was fed up with so-called comment spam. Returning from a weeklong vacation, he found a slew of comments on his blog that had nothing to do with communications: They ...
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