malware

Over at Lavasoft they have posted a new warning about a Trojan that is infecting systems. The Trojan is sneaky like most Trojans are. After infecting your system the Trojan replaces the user’s background screen with the below warning:

Clicking the ‘Update Now’ button takes the user to a purchase page which the bad guys try [...]

At a recent Virus Bulletin conference one of the attendees found one topic extremely interesting. The topic was about the Russian “Partnerka”, which has been mutated to attack Mac computer systems. The attendee knew that a majority of Mac users have no anti-malware software in place and could be easily infected. At the same conference [...]

At a time when the newspapers and other publishers are struggling to stay in business, the last thing the New York Times needed was an attack on their web site. But this is what apparently happened and the Times is warning visitings with this statement:
“Some NYTimes.com readers have seen a pop-up box warning them about a [...]

Trend Micro is reporting that a rogue extension is attacking Firefox and is intercepting search information. The rogue extension triggers a server to also send back advertisements to the browser. The articles goes on to state the following:
We have seen a lot of malware target Internet Explorer in the past. This is probably one of [...]

According to a recent article, Apple has included malware protection in their new Snow Leopard operating system. The protections can scan for two specific malware variants and protect the system from these two trojans.
According to a recent article at ZD Net it also states the following information:

Apple’s anti-malware function only scans files downloaded with a [...]

I have mentioned previously about using online security scanners to check your system periodically. I do this for several reasons. First of all I do not believe that any one product can provide 100% perfect protection all of the time. Second, using more than one program gives me a feeling that my system really, really [...]

My MVP lead sent me an email this morning saying that MSE was available for download. Since I am running the 64 bit Windows 7 RC on my test system, I downloaded MSE to try it. MSE comes in both 32 bit and 64 bit for Vista and Windows 7, plus there was a version [...]

Microsoft has dominated the software market not only with Windows but also their Office Suite of software products. Over the years the only real competition has been OpenOffice which Sun had been providing to the masses. But now that Oracle has devoured Sun, the question now is what will become of OpenOffice?
OpenOffice has provided a [...]

The New York Observer, as well as several other blog sites, are predicting the fall of Twitter. Citing phenomenal growth, up to 1,374% between February 2008 to February of this year, the newest social networking site seems like it is unstoppable. But now some are stating that the Tweeters will fail because of attacks by [...]

For years we PC users have been the focal point from Mac users who have always brought to our attention how secure the Mac is compared to the PC. Well all of that is starting to change as the Mac becomes more popular. Over at Trend Micro their latest security report seems to indicate that [...]

Now this is strange. A company that processes data information for credit card transactions, just reported the breach that allegedly happened last year. What is strange about this incident is that the company,Heartland Payment Systems waited so long to report the breach of security. The company than chose inauguration day to go public with the [...]

A new type of malware is disguising itself as a Firefox plugin in order to steal passwords on a users computer. Over at BitDefender they have isolated the bug known as Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A.
BitDefender also states that:
According to BitDefender researchers, the Trojan filters data sent by the victim to a large number of designated banking websites [...]

Microsoft is claiming that during their last patch Tuesday, their Malicious Software Removal Tool, which is part of the download package, removed malware from computer systems. The software giant made claim to the fact that MSRT actually cleaned up some one million computers that had become victim to fake software.
In their press release they state [...]

Microsoft is planning a new security offering code name ‘morro’, which the software giant hopes with curb the tide of malware infecting our systems. In addition Microsoft will stop making the paid subscription version of Windows Live OneCare effective June 30, 2009.  According to the press release Microsoft states:
“Customers around the world have told us [...]

Over at IT Wire they have a story about fake news articles allegedly from CNN or MSNBC, are being spoofed in an attempt to spread malware and spyware onto computer systems. The article states that the amount of fake news spam is about 5 million articles per hour. But is that a lot of spam? [...]

For years we PC users have been the source of jokes from Mac fans, who often criticized our ignorance for using Windows, since the Apple OS was so superior because of a lack of attacks. I believe we PC users realized that the main reason for Winodws hacks and attacks were two fold. First, Windows [...]