AOL’s Nullsoft division released a new version of its popular Winamp music and video player on Thursday, in part to fix a “major” security flaw in the program, according to the accompanying advisory. Winamp 5.22 includes a huge list of stability updates and at least a couple of security tweaks, though the advisory doesn’t get
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Spam emails and fake Microsoft patch
Internet Storm Center have received samples of an e-mail which is being actively spammed at the moment. The e-mail purports to be from Microsoft and it is notifying the recipient of “a new vulnerability [that] has been discovered in the Microsoft WinLogon Service”. It further states that the vulnerability can allow an attacker access to
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ZonedOut – Free tool for manage Internet Explorers Zones
ZonedOut is a complete Internet Explorer Security Zone Manager. Manage Zone Sites at the Current User and Local Machine level in style.
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Banwarum Worm Offers Tickets for the WORLD CUP
The new mass mailing worm called Banwarum (also known as Zasran and Ranchneg) that is using World Cup themed email messages. The worm sends itself as a password protected archive and includes in the email the password for it. The emails sent by the worm are in German and some of them offer tickets for
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Yahoo IM worm hijacks Internet Explorer Installs fake browser
A worm that installs a ‘Safety Browser’ and plays screeching music is circulating via IM. The annoyance starts with a link apparently sent by a friend in Yahoo’s IM program. IM security company FaceTime Communications described the malware, which it calls “yhoo32.explr”, The malware infects the PC with two elements. The first element is a
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Kaspersky lab released detection for malware exploiting the MS Word vulnerability
Some days ago we have reported about vulnerability in the Microsoft Word. Malware which spreads via email is exploiting the vulnerability as a specially crafted MS-Word .DOC attachment.If the attachment is launched, this triggers a process which results in a backdoor being installed. Kaspersky lab released detection for the malware, a dropper and backdoor. As
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I just go to Amazon and Citibank, so why am I seeing pop-ups for Adult Friend Finder?
A typical lament: “I just go to Amazon and Citibank, so why am I seeing pop-ups for Adult Friend Finder?” Parents, we have an answer – your teenager. One of the benefits of testing so much of the Web is that we’ve developed a good sense of where the bad guys concentrate. And smiley sites
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Good tool for manage your HOSTS file
HOSTS Secure is a utility that you can use to automatically download, unzip and install the MVPS HOSTS file.
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How to remove guardupdate.com, startupguarduptodate.com, guarduptodate.com homepage hijackers
Symptoms: Homepage hijacked and you got redirect to guardupdate.com, startupguarduptodate.com, guarduptodate.com. Many more popups. Yelloe triangle pops up in the bottom of the task bar flashing and saying that your PC have infected. Print out these instructions as we will need to close every window that is open later in the fix. Download HijackThis and
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How to block Microsoft Word vulnerability, recommended defenses.
Microsoft will release a patch against this problem in June, but even after that there are likely to be other attacks using other exploits. So let’s think a bit beyond the next couple of days on how to defend your network. User education is of course key, but likely insufficient. Attacks like that will use
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