Sunbeltblog reported (1, 2) about two fresh fake codes sites. Strcodec MP Video Codec Add both sites in to your blocklist. Use follow info: 69.50.160.58 Mpcodec.com 85.255.118.194 strcodec.com Related articles: How to remove malicious codecs.
Some days ago has been found new Zero day exploit. The exploit uses a bug in VML in Internet Explorer to overflow a buffer and inject shellcode. It is currently on and off again at a number of sites. Secunia reported: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the Microsoft Vector Graphics
Found Internet Explorer (daxctle.ocx) Heap Overflow Vulnerability. When Internet Explorer handle DirectAnimation.PathControl COM object(daxctle.ocx) Spline method, Set the first parameter to 0xffffffff will triggers an invalid memory write, That an attacker may DoS and possibly could execute arbitrary code. Affected windows version: Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows users.. check out Firefox, Opera, and
For the past several days, ISC have received all kinds of emails about the recent increase in scanning on port 139. One of loyal readers out there on the ‘Information SuperHighway’, Alex Pettinger, wrote and and gave us some netstat and fport outputs from one of his machines that seemed to be affected by the
Drive Cleaner is rogue privacy/security program that gives exaggerated reports of security and privacy risks on a computer. The program then prompts the user to purchase a registered version of the software in order to remove the reported risks. During installation, DriveCleaner configures itself to run automatically every time, when you start your computer. Once
Sun has released a fresh update for Java Runtime Environment. This is an extremely important update. JRE has long been used to install malware as it contains numerous vulnerabilities which allow remote code execution. Another important factor is that JRE works with all web browsers. This means that a vulnerability in JRE will affect all
There are some current tools out there which may help users make better choices (or block their bad choices). I’m just going to talk about browser toolbars.
Free Sophos Anti-Rootkit, finds and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer. Removing rootkits without compromising system integrity is particularly challenging and needs to be done with care.
Netcraft has a really nice toolbar which can provide visual clues as well as speed bumps to doing something unsafe. It can actually block access to a site pending user verification (ok so we all know most users click OK on anything that pops up to get it out of the way).
A spoofed website is typically made to look like a well known, branded site (like ebay.com or citibank.com) with a slightly different or confusing URL. The attacker then tries to trick people into going to the spoofed site by sending out fake email messages or posting links in public places – hoping that some percentage
