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AVG Anti-Virus Free is the Most Popular Program on CNET Download.com
2007-10-20 14:28:00 AVG Anti-Virus and Internet Security 19/10/2007Website: http://www.grisoft.comAVG Anti-Virus Free and Anti-Virus Pro ranked as number one and number three antivirus programs on download.comOrlando, F.L. - October 17, 2007 – GRISOFT, the developer of AVG Internet security software, today announced that AVG Anti-Virus Free is the number one downloaded program on all of CNET Download .com. Additionally, AVG Anti-Virus Free is the first most popular and Anti-Virus Pro is the third most popular antivirus based on Editor’s Choice. CNET Download.com is a well-referenced site and is part of CNET Networks, an internationally established online publication and host to technology news and reviews.AVG security products, for the home and office, are popular among CNET.com reviewers and users alike. AVG Anti-Virus Free holds an editor rating of five out of five, in addition to a user rating of four stars out of five. CNET.com reports that the latest version of AVG Anti-Virus Free, for private,... More About: Anti Virus
Virus Definition Updates 20/10/2007
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Exorcize PC Demons for Free on Halloween
2007-10-20 14:03:00 PC Magazine 19/10/2007Website: http://www.pcmag.comTwo vendors want to know: "Is your computer possessed? Does it seem like your hard drive's haunted?"If so, they're offering a day of free technical support to cleanse PCs from evil and help users rid themselves of zombies, botnets, viruses and other malware on Halloween .CyberDefender, an Internet security company that uses a client-to-client distributed network to scare off spyware, viruses, phishing and dangerous spam, and tech support provider Quatrro will be offering remote scans and remote repairs to any home or office user who calls (877) 377-3765 on Oct. 31.Storm botnet kits loom. Click here to read more.According to a release, the free goodies will include anything from repairing malware damage, speeding up system performance or even making sure that competitors' security solutions are working.Generally, CyberDefender says, tech support calls cost between $50 to $100. The giveaway is to promote a new offering, Premium Tech... More About: Free , Demons , Allo , Mons
Attackers produce new RealPlayer threat
2007-10-20 13:55:00 ComputerWorld UK 19/10/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comSymantec is warning RealPlayer users to be particularly vigilant at the moment. The compnay's Security Response team uncovered new attack code that affects the RealPlayer 11 beta and RealPlayer 10.5 software on the Windows platform, according to Ben Greenbaum, a senior manager with the group. Symantec has already confirmed that the attack code works on Windows XP Service Pack 1 running Internet Explorer 6. Tests for the more-recent XP service pack 2 and IE 7 browser were ongoing. For the attack to work, the criminal would have to trick the victim into playing a maliciously encoded web page. The flaw lies in a browser helper object, software that RealPlayer uses to help users who are experiencing technical difficulties. Once the exploit is run on the victim's machine, the attacker can download and install whatever software he wants, Greenbaum said. So far, Symantec has just seen the one sample of the attack cod... More About: Produce , Attack , Threat , Atta
Comcast blocks some Internet traffic
2007-10-20 13:49:00 Associated Press 19/10/2007Website: http://www.ap.orgNEW YORK - Comcast Corp. actively interferes with attempts by some of its high-speed Internet subscribers to share files online, a move that runs counter to the tradition of treating all types of Net traffic equally.The interference, which The Associated Press confirmed through nationwide tests, is the most drastic example yet of data discrimination by a U.S. Internet service provider. It involves company computers masquerading as those of its users.If widely applied by other ISPs, the technology Comcast is using would be a crippling blow to the BitTorrent, eDonkey and Gnutella file-sharing networks. While these are mainly known as sources of copyright music, software and movies, BitTorrent in particular is emerging as a legitimate tool for quickly disseminating legal content.The principle of equal treatment of traffic, called "Net Neutrality" by proponents, is not enshrined in law but supported by some regulations. Most of the de... More About: Traffic , Blocks , Some
Virus Definition Updates 8/10/2007
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Microsoft offers Internet Explorer 7 to pirates
2007-10-09 04:38:00 ComputerWorld UK 9/10/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comUsers running pirated or counterfeit copies of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 can now download Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft has announced. From the moment it released the program almost a year ago, Microsoft has restricted the browser to users who can prove they own a legitimate copy of the operating system. Before Microsoft allows the browser to download, it runs the user's PC through a Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) validation test, a prime part of XP's antipiracy software. When it instituted the requirement in 2006, Microsoft said rights to IE7 were one of the rewards for being legal. But it has now changed its mind, saying the move is in users' best interest. "Because Microsoft takes its commitment to help protect the entire Windows ecosystem seriously, we're updating the IE7 installation experience to make it available as broadly as possible to all Windows users," said Steve Reynolds, an IE program m... More About: Pirates , Internet Explorer
Spam and the Housing Bust
2007-10-09 04:35:00 PCMagazine 9/10/2007Website: http://www.pcmag.comIf nothing else, spammers are good at following the news.Symantec's October State of Spam report found spammers were using homeowners' concerns about the real estate market as part of recent spam campaigns. The idea, researchers said, was to steal victims' personal information by tricking them into believing they were being evaluated for an equity loan, refinancing or a house.Such efforts were part of the reason spam rose to account for 70 percent of all e-mail traffic in September, according to experts at Symantec, based in Cupertino, Calif. Though that amount represents an increase of about only 1 percent from August, the spam landscape continues to undergo noticeable change.For example, image spam, once a regular visitor to e-mail inboxes around the world, has continued to fall out of favor with spammers, dropping from 10 percent of all spam in August to 7 percent in September, according to the report.What would it take to stop ... More About: Housing , Bust
Security researchers look beyond Vista
2007-10-04 05:48:00 from ComputerWorld UK 4/10/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comThe improved security in Microsoft's newest software products may leave some security researchers looking elsewhere for work.That was the message that some security professionals took away from BlueHat, an event last week on Microsoft's campus that allows security researchers to mingle with Microsoft developers."One of the messages we got was to look in the future for [our products] to not be so successful," said Pedram Amini, manager of security research at 3Com Corp.'s Tipping Point division. That's because Microsoft is applying a lot of the technologies used by security researchers in house, making the third-party techniques not as effective, he said.For example, he said that Microsoft Office has been susceptible to fault by fuzzing, an automated technique for finding software faults when access to the code isn't available. But Microsoft has recently put more effort into using fuzzing itself, so now third-... More About: Security , Vista
Malicious code infects Chinese security site
2007-10-04 05:40:00 from InfoWorld 3/10/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.comSan Francisco (IDGNS) - The Web site of one of China's Internet security organizations has been laced with malicious code.At least three pages on the Chinese Internet Security Response Team's (CISRT) Web site are rigged with a malicious "iframe," a hidden window on a Web page that can allow code such as JavaScript to run on a visitor's PC, according to Trend Micro's malware blog.CISRT said the attack takes advantage of vulnerabilities associated with an ActiveX control in the BaoFeng Storm multimedia player. The iframe loads scripts that download more malicious code to a victim's machine, Trend Micro said. One of the downloaders is named "sms.exe."CISRT apologized for the problems on its blog. "We are very sorry that when sometimes visiting our ... pages, malicious codes are inserted," it said.How the code appears on CISRT's Web site was unclear. CISRT said it may be an Address Resolution Protocol attack, where data sent... More About: Site , Code
Malware is Getting Sneakier
2007-10-04 05:12:00 from PCWorld 3/10/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.comIt's getting harder and harder to know who to trust on the World Wide Web, according to online safety advocates StopBadware.org.On Tuesday, the group released its 2007 Trends in Badware report, saying the bad guys are finding new ways to place their malicious software on our computers-- often by compromising Web sites that we trust.With the help of one of its sponsor companies, Google Inc., StopBadware maintains a list of 200,000 Web sites that are known to be associated with malicious downloads. According to Max Weinstein, a project manager with StopBadware, more than half of these sites have been hacked and don't even realize it.In fact, this move to delivering malicious software on legitimate sites has been a disturbing trend over the past year, he said."It used to be that the advice to the end-user was 'keep your software up to date and then don't go to bad Web sites,'" he said. "You still don't want to go to those sites... More About: Malware
Virus Definition Updates 30/9/2007
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UK PCs Have Least Malware
2007-09-29 16:24:00 from PCWorld 29/9/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.comAn online malware measuring tool has unexpectedly rated U.K. PCs as having the lowest level of infection in Europe.The Nanoscan tool, which can be downloaded as a plug-in from the site of owner Panda Software, put the U.K. in bottom spot last week, with only 8.1 percent of those scanned showing active malware. By a separate measure, that of 'latent' or inactive malware, however, the U.K. fared less well, reaching 20.7 percent.Top of the infection list for active malware was France (28.2 percent), Mexico (23.1 percent), Brazil (18 percent), the U.S. (17.8 percent), and Argentina (17.4 percent).The figures appear to show very high levels of infection, but the results only rate those who visited the site and asked to be scanned. These individuals would be expected to show a bias towards having infected PCs. The company has created its own global malware map from the data, which is collected from thousands of mostly consumer PCs eve... More About: Malware
McAfee: Most Consumers Overestimate PC Safety
2007-09-29 07:50:00 from PCWorld 28/9/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.comIt's self-serving, but a new study by McAfee Inc. and the National Cyber Security Alliance has found that 78 percent of consumer PCs in the U.S. are not protected (defined as having up-to-date AV, spyware and a properly configured firewall).What's interesting, though is how many people think they are protected: 93 percent according the survey, which is set to be released Monday."There's... a troubling perception among the vast majority of consumers that they're well protected. And they're not. " McAfee says. Translation: buy more of our products. :-)Maybe on Monday we'll learn then what percentage of the people who are not protected *think* they're safe.By the way, the percentage of protected computers hasn't improved much over the past two years. In 2005, the study found that 81 percent of PCs were not protected.These are big numbers and the fact that not a lot more people are becoming protected seems to show that consume... More About: Safety , Consumers , Mcafee , Eres
Virus Definition Updates 27/9/2007
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Gmail accounts threatened by vulnerability
2007-09-27 17:39:00 from ComputerWorld UK 25/9/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comGoogle's Gmail can be easily hacked, allowing any past and future emails to read by hackers, according to a vulnerability researcher.A "cross-site request forgery" (CSRF) bug was disclosed by Petko Petkov, a UK-based web vulnerability tester who has made a name for himself of late. In the past two weeks, Petkov has publicly posted information about critical, zero-day bugs in Apple's QuickTime, Microsoft's Windows Media Player and Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF).According to Petkov, who declined to release details about the vulnerability, attackers can use Gmail's filtering feature to exploit the bug. An attack, he said, would start with a victim visiting a malicious website while also still logged into his Gmail account. The malicious site would then perform what Petkov called a "multi-part/form-date POST" - an HTML command that can be used to upload files - to one of the Gmail application programming ... More About: Vulnerability , Threat
US video shows simulated hacker attack
2007-09-27 17:34:00 from Associated Press 27/9/2007Website: http://www.ap.orgWASHINGTON - A government video shows the potential destruction caused by hackers seizing control of a crucial part of the U.S. electrical grid: an industrial turbine spinning wildly out of control until it becomes a smoking hulk and power shuts down.The video, produced for the Homeland Security Department and obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday, was marked "Official Use Only." It shows commands quietly triggered by simulated hackers having such a violent reaction that the enormous turbine shudders as pieces fly apart and it belches black-and-white smoke.The video was produced for top U.S. policy makers by the Idaho National Laboratory, which has studied the little-understood risks to the specialized electronic equipment that operates power, water and chemical plants. Vice President Dick Cheney is among those who have watched the video, said one U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity because this official ... More About: Video , Hacker , Attack , Atta
Symantec backtracks on Internet meltdown warning
2007-09-25 17:27:00 from ComputerWorld UK 25/9/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comSymantec 's early-warning system gave its enterprise customers a brief scare last Friday (21 September) when it erroneously sent an alert that said an Internet -crippling attack was in progress. The message, which went out to users of Symantec's DeepSight advanced alert system around 8:40 pm US Eastern time, had a subject head that simply read: "DeepSight Increased ThreatCon from 1 to 4 Alert." ThreatCon uses a 1-4 scoring system, with 1 being the least alarming threat level and 4 the most dire, to indicate Symantec's take on the current state of Internet security. According to the company's own definition, Level 4 is regarded as a "Full alert" and is reserved for those times when "extreme global network incident activity is in progress." The definition goes on to say that "implementation of measures in this Threat Condition for more than a short period probably will create hardship and affect the normal op... More About: Warning
Virus Definition Updates 25/9/2007
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Virus Definition Updates 22/9/2007
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PluggedIn: Hackers control PCs while users unaware
2007-09-21 04:54:00 from Reuters 21/9/2007Website: http://www.reuters.comBOSTON (Reuters) - A few weeks ago Candace Locklear's office computer quietly started sending out dozens of instant messages with photos attached that were infected with malicious software.She was sitting at her desk, with no sign that the messaging software was active. By the time she figured out what was going on, several friends and colleagues had opened the attachments and infected their computers.It took eight hours for a technician to clean up her computer. But because the malicious software worked so secretly, she's still not convinced that all's clear."I'd like to think that it's gone. But I just don't know," said Locklear, 40, a publicist in San Francisco. "That's what is so frustrating."Computer security experts estimate that tens of millions of personal computers are infected with malicious software like the one that attacked Locklear's machine. Such programs, generally classified as malware, attack companies al... More About: Hackers , Control , Users , Aware
CleanUp! Home
2007-09-21 04:31:00 Introducing Windows CleanUp!, the quickest and easiest way to delete temporary files from your system.CleanUp! is a powerful and easy-to-use application that removes temporary files created while surfing the web, empties the Recycle Bin, deletes files from your temporary folders and more.CleanUp! frees disk space and reduces the "clutter" on your computer helping it to run more efficiently. It also can be used as a way to protect your privacy on the Internet. You can even instruct CleanUp! to securely delete files making it impossible to retrieve their contents using lower-level disk tools - just another way of protecting your privacy.No gimmicks here, CleanUp! is so easy to set up and use that you'll have a lean, clean, mean machine in minutes.Developer: Steven GouldWebsite: http://www.stevengould.orgDownload it HERE! More About: Home , Cleanup
Virus Definition Updates 20/9/2007
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Not all Malware is Equally Evil, Researchers Say
2007-09-20 07:22:00 from PC World 19/9/2007Website: http://www.pcworld.comTwo senior security veterans from Trend Micro Inc. are trying to get the industry to change how it classifies malicious software.They argue that today's classification system, which tends to focus on the technical way the software works, neglects a far more important metric that matters more to users: how it tries to steal your money."This is my pet bugaboo-- the unclear language," said David Perry, global director for education at Trend. "I come from 26 years of technical support, and it irks me that we protect people against things and they don't know what we're protecting them against."Perry and Anthony Arrott will present their paper, "New approaches to categorizing economically-motivated digital threats," on Friday at a security conference in Vienna.Take the term "virus." The proper definition of virus is a piece of software that replicates or makes copies of itself and attaches itself to other pieces of software.But for ... More About: Malware , Evil , Ally
Hacker finally publishes notorious Apple Wi-Fi attack
2007-09-19 04:13:00 from InfoWorld 19/9/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.comSan Francisco (IDGNS) - More than a year after claiming to have found a way to take over a Macintosh computer using a flaw in the system's wireless card, David Maynor has published details of his exploit.The details were included in a paper published in the September issue of Uninformed.org, an online hacking magazine. The lengthy paper describes how to run unauthorized software on a Macintosh by taking advantage of a flaw in Apple 's AirPort wireless drivers.Apple patched the bug in September 21 without crediting Maynor for discovering the problem. Instead, Apple's engineers found the bug during an internal audit, the company said.Maynor and researcher Jon Ellch first described this type of problem during an August 2006 presentation at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas. He was widely criticized by the Apple community for failing to back up his claims with technical details and for presenting a video demonstrati... More About: Hacker , Finally , Fina , Ally
Infrastructure threats: Botnets show DoS who's boss
2007-09-19 04:09:00 from InfoWorld 19/9/2007Website: http://www.infoworld.comSan Francisco (InfoWorld) - Malware-infected botnet PCs have overtaken DoS attacks as the top security issue facing Internet service providers and other Web infrastructure hosting players, according to a new survey of the organizations.Arbor Networks published the results of its third-annual Infrastructure Security Report on Monday -- a survey of 75 large ISPs, hosting companies, and other providers -- which found for the first time that botnets currently outrank DoS threats as the most serious concern for the firms.Tens of millions of PCs are likely infected with botnet programs worldwide, according to survey results, and Arbor researchers said the ISPs they questioned admitted to spending more time and resources battling botnets than ever before.Infrastructure providers are finding botnets hard to pin down, as the people responsible for controlling the zombie machines are increasingly employing more advanced detection evasio... More About: Show , Boss , Threats , Botnets
Symantec Warns of Clever New Hacks
2007-09-18 04:23:00 from NewsFactor.com 17/9/2007Website: http://www.newsfactor.comAccording to Symantec 's latest Internet Security Threat Report, online criminals are getting more sophisticated -- even commercial -- in the development, distribution, and use of malicious code.Symantec said that while financial gain continues to drive Internet crime, criminals are now using even more professional attack methods, tools, and strategies to conduct malicious activity online."The Internet threats and malicious activity we are currently tracking demonstrate that hackers are taking this trend to the next level by making cybercrime their actual profession, and they are employing businesslike practices to successfully accomplish this goal," said Arthur Wong, senior vice president of Symantec Security Response and Managed Services, in a statement.Sophisticated ToolkitsDuring the reporting period of Jan. 1, 2007 to June 30, 2007, Symantec detected an increase in Internet criminals leveraging sophisticated toolki... More About: Hacks , Clever
Malware is Getting Smarter, IBM Warns
2007-09-18 04:18:00 from Computerworld UK 17/9/2007Website: http://www.computerworlduk.comIBM has reported an increase in malware volume and sophistication as part of its security statistics report for the first half of the year.So far this year, its X-Force research and development team has identified and analyzed more than 210,000 new malware samples, which is more than the total number of malware samples observed over the entirety of last year.According to IBM, the "exploits as a service" industry continues to thrive, with the new practice of "exploit leasing" added to the repertoire of criminals. By leasing an exploit, attackers can now test exploitation techniques with a smaller initial investment, making this underground market an even more attractive option for malicious perpetrators.According to the report, Trojans (seemingly legitimate files that are actually malware) are the most common form of malware this year, accounting for 28 percent of all malware. Last year, by contrast, Downloaders wa... More About: Malware
Virus Definition Updates 18/9/2007
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Hacked GOP Site Infects Visitors with Malware
More articles from this author:2007-09-15 11:02:00 from Yahoo News 14/9/2007Website: http://news.yahoo.comA Republican Party Web site has been hacked, and for some time it has been spreading a variation of the long-running Storm Trojan horse to vulnerable visitors, a security researcher said Friday.This is the first time that Storm has taken to the Web for its victims, said Dan Hubbard, head of research at San Diego-based Websense Inc. "The big news is that Storm has added infecting sites to its arsenal," said Hubbard.Storm debuted in January but only cracked the top malware lists early this summer, and has become infamous for its ability to adapt its infection strategies."They have a knack for latching onto the latest newsworthy events and capitalizing on the public interest in them," Symantec Corp. researcher Hon Lau said last month. "And if no newsworthy events are happening at the time, then they will just make them up."Until now, Storm has infected users via files attached to e-mail or through links embedded in spam. The change... More About: Malware , Site , Visitors , Hacked 1, 2, 3 |
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