32 month ago
kayodeok : A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely - OSNews.com - A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely
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kayodeok : The twelve e-mails of Christmas! - On the eleventh day of Christmas my e-mail sent to me; Eleven peper files, ten BHOs, nine Qoologics, eight Smitfrauds, seven rootkits, six WinTools, Cool Web Search, four Trojan horses, three search bars, two Sasser Worms and a virus for my PC
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33 month ago
kayodeok : Winpooch : opensource anti spyware and trojan - Winpooch is a Windows watchdog, free and open source. Anti spyware and anti trojan, it gives a full protection against local or external attacks by scanning the activity of programs in real time. Associated with ClamWin antivirus, Winpooch keeps safe your
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35 month ago
kayodeok : Spyware: What You Need to Know - A survey from California security company Trend Micro last week revealed that more than 87 percent of corporate end users are now familiar with the spyware threat -- 40 percent through personal experience. But a little more than half say they still don't
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36 month ago
kayodeok : Koran-quoting Trojan blocks access to porn sites - Sophos virus analysis: Troj/Yusufali-A : A new Trojan monitors access to porn sites and then displays a quote from the Koran chastising the surfer for his or her sins
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Sunbeltblog: Massive identity theft ring - In some recent research into a spyware exploit, our research team has discovered a massive identity theft ring. We also found the keylogger transcript files that are being uploaded to the servers.
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Massive ID Theft Ring Discovered - Spyware Warrior has more information
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37 month ago
kayodeok : USB devices can become hardware-based Trojans - SPI Dynamics security engineers David Dewey and Darrin Barrall have revealed a hack where full data compromise can be achieved in less than 10 seconds of physical access
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Greynets Special Report: Instant Messenger Opens Flood Gates to Hidden Spyware
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Japanese bank accounts raided by spyware - Experts at Sophos are advising computer users to ensure their anti-virus products can also protect against spyware after the reported theft of $84,000 (9.4 million yen) from nine Japanese bank accounts
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Another broken window: Trojan Defence Suite (TDS) software line discontinued - "TDS was first developed when the very first remote access trojans for Windows were released. This was in the mid-late 90s, and there were just a few of them initially so it was easy for even a single person to keep on top of the situation. Today in 2005
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39 month ago
kayodeok : The True Computer Parasite - This article examines the evolution of malware, highlighting developments in replication techniques as well as significant changes in the nature of payload activities -- which now often generate profit for the malware creators
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39 month ago
kayodeok : a-squared Free is a freeware Anti-Malware Software - a-squared Free is the free alternative to a-squared Personal. It cleans your computer from existing Malware but does not contain the background guard with the IDS which prevents any further infection of your computer
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Trojan holds PC files for ransom - A unique new kind of malicious threat which locks up files on a PC then demands money in return for unlocking them has been identified
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39 month ago
kayodeok : Symantec Security Response - Trojan.Pgpcoder - Trojan.Pgpcoder is a Trojan horse which searches for files with various extensions and encodes them. The original files are then deleted and the newly encoded ones become unreadable
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40 month ago
kayodeok : Googkle: Be careful when searching the web - If a user types googkle instead of google, his/her computer gets hijacked - a lot of different malware gets automatically downloaded and installed: trojan droppers, trojan downloaders, backdoors, a proxy trojan and a spying trojan. Also a few adware-relat
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Introduction to Spyware Keyloggers - "On the web application side, one method to avoid keystroke capture is to use a virtual keyboard for entering the username and password. A virtual keyboard is analogous to a graphical keypad where a user clicks on the characters rather than types them on
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41 month ago
kayodeok : DNS Cache Poisoning - Detailed Analysis Report Version 2 - DNS cache poisoning is a method for an attacker to change the IP address that a hostname resolves to. For instance the hostname www.cisco.com points to the IP address 198.133.219.25. A DNS cache poisoning attack allows an attacker to change the IP add
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42 month ago
kayodeok : The Future of Malware Defense? - Microsoft has a research paper called "Can We Contain Internet Worms?" which discuss how worms might become more readily containable as computers collaborate in a more automated manner by broadcasting self-certifying alerts (SCAs) when they detect a worm
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Java.OpenStream.T: Java Applet trojan that infects Internet Explorer even when run in Firefox - This trojan is probably not intended to work with Firefox or any other alternative browser. The trojan works just because the trojan author did not use any Microsoft specific code. Thus making the trojan portable to other platforms.
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42 month ago
kayodeok : F-Secure Blacklight Rootkit Elimination Technology - F-Secure BlackLight Rootkit Elimination Technology detects objects that are hidden from users and security tools and offers the user an option to remove them. The main purpose is to fight rootkits and all kinds of malware that use rootkits
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kayodeok : X-RayPc Spyware Remover Process Analyzer from Xblock Systems - Xblock Systems is pleased to announce a new freeware product to help technical users regain control of their machines and to assist spyware researchers doing log analysis. We took the best aspects of the HJT concept and linked it up to the SpywareGuide da
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Experts warn users to be wary of links sent over IM - With e-mail viruses less effective than before, virus writers, they say, are now turning their attention to the popular - and not very secure - chat tools used by millions
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42 month ago
kayodeok : The Brady Bunch?s Computer... if they had one... - Remember the Brady's from the 1970's sitcom? They were the model family. Saccharin to the point of nausea and perhaps lucky for them they didn't own a family computer. In this article we take a walk along memory lane and imagine what could have happened i
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42 month ago
kayodeok : Reverse-Engineering Malware - This paper discusses tools and techniques useful for understanding inner workings of malware such as viruses, worms, and trojans
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