AntivirusGold is an adware application. Antivirus Gold is installed by some trojans without asking for user permission. The deskop wallpaper is modified & advertisement is displayed uring the user to buy Antivirus Gold. Upon clicking on the message, a web explorer is opened to point to www.AntiVirus-Gold.com. The purpose of this trojan is to install [...]
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180 Search Assistant displays annoying pop-up and pop-under ads. 180Search Assistant periodically updates itself using an auto-updater without the permission and/or awareness of user. User has no means to configure or disable it. 180Search Assistant periodically contacts it´s web-sites to download updates for it´s dat file stored in C:/Application Files/180search Assistant.
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Both Symantec and Sophos have released updates for their antivirus products to remedy security vulnerabilities. In Symantec’s business and consumer antivirus products, local users are able to cause the computer to crash. Injected script code can be executed in Sophos’ security products. Attackers may also bypass detection with prepared archives.
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A just-arrived spam claimed "Your Money on Bank Account has Been Stolen" and provided a link to a Chinese site for a free trial of "TrendMicro AntiSpyware." This spam has a German domain as the sender, a Polish mail server, a Chinese domain suffix, and an IP address in New Jersey, as the "legitimate" download [...]
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Antivirus vendors Sophos and Kaspersky have published an analysis of the statistics from their antivirus solutions for August 2007. Sophos says that the number of e-mails with contaminated attachments has reduced. In the first two quarters of 2007, 0.3 percent of all e-mails contained a contaminant, but that figure dropped to 0.1 percent in August.
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Panda Security informs that almost 28 percent of computers with installed protection scanned at the Infected or Not website (http://www.infectedornot.com) last week were infected by some kind of malicious code. As for computers with no protection installed, the infection percentage was over 40 percent.
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Lavasoft now has Vista-compatible versions of its Ad-Aware 2007 anti-spyware line. The Free, Plus and Pro versions all now work with the 32-bit version of Microsoft’s new OS. I just installed the new free version onto my Vista laptop, and both the install and initial scan went smoothly. And I was happy to see that [...]
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