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An infections graph released by the Trend Micro Threat Analytics shows that the growth in severe malware infections grew 200% throughout 2007. Severe malware place user data and credibility at risk by damaging possibly critical user and system data (which may render the system unusable or lead to irreparable data loss), compromising user systems, or [...]

VIRUSRAY is the latest, meticulously timed generation of a long line of rogue antispyware products. Its sole purpose is to take $30 from each PC user. It all begins with a simply dropped infection which generates a system warning telling the user that their PC is badly infected and urging them to act fast and [...]

McAfee Avert Labs today observed e-mail messages with malicious PDF attachments exploiting the critical Adobe Acrobat Mailto Unspecified PDF File Security Vulnerability (CVE-2007-5020) being spammed in the wild. Successful exploitation leads to a batch file being executed on the victim’s machine that disables the built-in windows firewall and then downloads a password stealer from an [...]

New features of botnets created by the infamous Storm Worm allow denial of service attacks to be launched against security defenders that attempt to interrupt its operation. Attempts to probe command-and-control servers can result in a withering counter-attack of malicious traffic that can swamp the internet connections of security activists for days, according to Josh [...]

Notorious adware maker DirectRevenue LLC -1 closed shop. The company, which was recently doing business as Best Offers, gave no reason for its sudden closure, which was announced on its Web site. "Best Offers and Direct Revenue have ceased operations. To service legacy consumers we are maintaining this page of uninstall instructions, an uninstall software [...]

SunshineSpy is the next installment in a long line of bogus antispyware applications. It has been around for about a month and is now gathering pace. Products like SunshineSpy have only one purpose, to hoodwink users into paying for a security product they really don’t need. SunshineSpy users will see the regular pattern of a [...]

The ubiquity of computers, particularly home computers, has led owners to treat them like refrigerators or toasters — plugging them in, adjusting some initial settings, and using them until they break or until a different set of features is desired. This is a recipe for disaster because without education and the right security software, the [...]

cmdService, also known as Command Service, is adware that displays commercial advertisements and opens annoying pop-ups. The parasite is usually installed through drive-by downloads. Its makers are able to partially control the compromised system by disabling or removing any other advertising-supported programs installed. cmdService runs a service on every Windows startup.

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There are plenty of malicious websites today. Some of them install trojans and other malware once you visit them and others pretend to be legitimate websites that sell security tools. Both types of websites are harmful: either your computer is infected secretly or you spend money for software that is useless. If only those fraudulent [...]

The latest Storm variants have a new twist. They now use a 40-byte key to encrypt their Overnet P2P traffic. This means that each node will only be able to communicate with nodes that use the same key. This effectively allows the Storm author to segment the Storm botnet into smaller networks. This could be [...]

The latest trend in social engineering actually installs Trojans on a PC instead of eliminating them, McAfee security researchers found.. First there was Fake Steve Jobs. Now there’s a fake Microsoft AntiSpyware Center. In a post on McAfee’s Avert Labs blog, security researcher Rahul Mohandas details the latest trend in social engineering and cynical branding: [...]

Since early 2007 a new form of malware has made its presence known on the Internet by its prolific growth rate, its ability to distribute large volumes of spam, and its ability to avoid detection and eradication. Storm Worm (or W32.Peacomm, Nuwar, Tibs, Zhelatin), as it is known, is a highly prolific new generation of [...]

SpySheriff is a corrupt illegally distributed anti-spyware program. It is secretly installed to victim computers by various trojans and through certain web browser exploits. Once executed, SpySheriff registers itself in the system and runs a payload. It changes the desktop background to a fake warning message, forbids access to some web sites and may even [...]

SpyShredder is an extremely dangerous corrupt anti-spyware parasite that may seriously damage your system and scare you into buying the parasite itself. The main ways of SpyShredder infection are trojans and browser security exploits. Once it installs itself onto your system, SpyShredder starts harassing you with countless popups, trying to trick you into buying its [...]

After lying low for several weeks, hackers responsible for spreading the Storm Trojan have returned to the attack with e-mail that leads to an exploit-filled Web site and a laughing cat, said researchers today. Storm — also known as Nuwar or Peacomm — is a Trojan horse designed to compromise Windows-powered computers, then add those [...]