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PC Tools has launched a global threat analysis website that provides users with detailed information on suspected security risks in minutes. Threat Expert Limited, a subsidiary of PC Tools, today launched an update to its automated malware threat detection and analysis website, Threat Expert, now allowing users to receive security reports on suspicious websites in [...]

Aureate.Radiate.A is Variant of one of the first adware Aureate. Aureate.Radiate.A is a browser helper object that open pop-up windows. Aureate.Radiate.A properties:
• Changes browser settings
• Hides from the user
• Stays resident in background

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Floopy is a destructive virus that attempts to delete vital system files and thus destroy the entire system. It also changes Windows Explorer settings and shutdowns the infected computer whenever the user tries to runs system tools such as Registry Editor, Comand Prompt or System Configuration Utility. The virus may open some Microsoft Word documents. [...]

Delf Worm spreads through network shares. It installs itself into registry to get more control of a compromised computer. Delf Worm is also capable to turn-off anti-virus applications. If a process of this worm is terminated it tends to reboot computer.

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Ultimate Cleaner is a corrupt anti-spyware program that purportedly finds and removes spyware parasites from the compromised system. However, it is actually a poor performance product that uses false positives as goad to purchase. Ultimate Cleaner is illegally installed to user computers by widely spread trojans, through malicious advertisements and numerous exploits.

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A new day brings a new rogue anti-spyware product… The latest creative name to be used is AntiSpywareShield. The website Antispywareshield.com was registered on 2nd September 2007. When surfing to this website you are re- directed to www.malware-alarm.com.

Here’s another rogue anti-spyware product worthy of a mention. It’s called AntiVirGear. So why do I believe this is worthy of a mention? Well, on the 3rd of July 2007, Jacques posted information regarding VirusProtect Pro. Since appearing on our radar we have protected over 4,300 users in our community against this threat, and yes [...]

Trojans, worms and viruses are beginning to use the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) used to update Windows, to dodge firewalls and infect computers, according to new research. The latest quarterly report from Panda Software’s PandaLabs research team said that malware was using the service, often used to deply updates and fix security flaws in [...]

There’s something else most consumers don’t want that is made in China, along with lead-tainted toys and poisoned toothpaste: malicious Web pages. Security firm Sophos has posted the findings of its August report on malware and found China far and away had the most compromised Web pages serving up malware. Problem is this stuff is [...]

Last night (30th August 2007) one of our researchers received a nice surprise when attempting to download the latest version of BitTorrent from the official website, www.Bittorrent.com. After entering the site, clicking on the link in the top right corner “Get BitTorrent”, instead of the BitTorrent download page a nice pop-up message appeared on screen [...]

This adware pretends to be a spyware removal tool, while in reality it fakes a spyware scan and tries to lure computer owner into buying it, to remove fake spyware entries it "finds". This software is a successor of the infamous fake anti-spyware tool SpyAxe. Keeping this adware on your computer is unsafe, because it [...]

SpySheriff is rogue anti-spyware software that acts like a trojan horse. SpySheriff hijacks the desktop, changes the wallpaper to a warning message to lure the user into using the antispyware software [which fixes nothing] it installs.

ISTbar is hijacker of homepages & searches, which uses IE toolbar to perform its malicious task. This hijacker also has characteristics of spyware and adware behavior.

GAIN is a advertisement serving network which delivers infects (seeds) in computers of users with the help of adware technology developed by The Gator Corp. The ad serving network is supposed to be based on permissions (user is aware of installing ad serving ware) in addition to free software. Should a user of a ad [...]

Aze Search is a malicious program hijacker. Aze Search Toolbar changes the hosts & hijacks the domains of google, yahoo, msn, cracks.am, go.com and astalavista.com. When user searches for something on the hijacked domains, the result quality is different, it´s full of advertisements and the actual quality results are burried below.