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Malicious .biz site and browser vulnerabilities

Myantispyware team November 20, 2005 2 Comments Exploits & Vulnerabilities

A user visited a webpage and got redirected to hxxp://iframebiz.biz/dl/adv443.php (tt changed to xx to protect anyone from getting there…) Among other things… the page was obfuscated and many malicious bits of software loaded through javascript…. such as hxxp://iframebiz.biz/dl/adv443/sploit.anr and hxxp://iframebiz.biz/dl/loadadv443.exe and hxxp://iframebiz.biz/dl/adv443.hta and some sort of loaderadv443.jar and… http://iframebiz.biz/dl/adv443/x.chm It looks like a bunch

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Immunize Yourself Against Sony’s Dangerous Uninstaller

Myantispyware team November 19, 2005 No Comment Critical patch, Malware removal

Jeff Dwoskin and Alex Halderman have developed a simple tool that can immunize a Windows system against the dangerous CodeSupport ActiveX control that we have written about over the past few days. The immunization tool should disable CodeSupport if it is already on your system, and it should prevent any future reinstallation or reactivation of

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Microsoft Boosts Phishing Security

Myantispyware team November 18, 2005 No Comment Updates

o enhance the protection offered by Microsoft Phishing Filter and Microsoft SmartScreen Technology, the company has roped in three new data providers, Cyota, Internet Identity and MarkMonitor. These companies will regularly provide Microsoft with information on confirmed phishing Web sites. Microsoft Phishing Filter, introduced in July 2005, helps protect customers from phishing scams when they

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Real Player critical patch for two vulnerabilities

Myantispyware team November 14, 2005 No Comment Critical patch, Tips

… patch your Real Player now: RealNetworks has issued a critical patch for two vulnerabilities reported by eEye. The vulnerabilities affect a large number of RealNetworks’ applications. eEye RealPlayer Zipped Skin File Buffer Overflow II “A RealPlayer skin file (.rjs extension) can be downloaded and applied automatically through a web browser without the user’s permission.”

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