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Vulnerability in F-Secure products

Myantispyware team January 21, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities

F-Secure have released security advisory FSC-2006-1. Brief description Specially crafted ZIP archives may be used to execute code on affected systems. Both RAR- and ZIP-archives can in addition be crafted to avoid successful scanning and obfuscate malicious code in the archive. Software F-Secure’s Anti-Virus products for Microsoft Windows and Linux Affected versions F-Secure Anti-Virus for

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WMF exploit and Phishing

Myantispyware team January 16, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Identity Theft

F-secure labs have found a phishing scam exploiting this vulnerability. This scam works by sending out emails, urging customers of the global HSBC bank to visit a site called www[dot]jhsbc[dot]com. This domain, naturally, has nothing to with the real bank but it sounds close enough. The site is running on a owned home computer somewhere

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Spybot S&D Update 13 January 2006

Myantispyware team January 15, 2006 No Comment Malware removal, Updates

Hijacker + Web-Nexus + MaxSearch + Mirar + CoolWWWSearch.Feat2Installer + CoolWWWSearch.Service + CoolWWWSearch.Feat2DLL Malware ++ SurfEnhance ++ FCHelp + CAS-Client + WinFixer2005 + Adware.Webext + Pacimedia + Deskwizz ++ AUpdater + MediaMotor PUPS ++ AdwarePunisher ++ SpyiBlock Security + Windows.Explorer Spyware ++ iTunes.602 ++ 007 Spy Software + Exact Advertising.BargainsBuddy Trojan + Z-Quest + Elitum.EliteBar

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Why WMF is not a “Critical” issue on the Windows 9x platform

Myantispyware team January 15, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities

It’s technical, but if you can wade through it, it’s well worth the read With WMF we want to be very clear: the Windows 9x platform is not vulnerable to any “Critical” attack vector. The reason Windows 9x is not vulnerable to a “Critical” attack vector is because an additional step exists in the Win9x

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Symantec uses rootkit-type techniques for hide files

Myantispyware team January 15, 2006 1 Comment Critical patch

News.com reports Symantec has released an update to its popular Norton SystemWorks to fix a security problem that could be abused by cybercriminals to hide malicious software In the PC-tuning application, a feature called the Norton Protected Recycle Bin creates a hidden directory on Windows systems. The feature is meant to help people restore modified

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Ad AwareSE Update 11.01.2006

Myantispyware team January 13, 2006 No Comment Updates

New definitions: ==================== Adware.Mediapipe Adware.Webext RepairRegistryPro UnSpyPc Win32.Trojan.Gunbound Updated definitions: ==================== Adintelligence.AproposToolbar +4 Adware.Dropper Adware.NaviPromo.c +2 begin2search +6 DyFuCA Ezula Instafinder Lop +2 Malware.Psguard Malware.Spyaxe Pribi.BHO PurityScan SpywareNo +2 SurfSidekickBHO Win32.Trojan.Agent Win32.Trojan.Dialer.ay Win32.TrojanDownloader.Agent Win32.TrojanDownloader.Small Win32.TrojanDownloader.Zlob VX2 +2 Read more and download here.

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Clam Antivirus Vulnerability

Myantispyware team January 13, 2006 No Comment Critical patch

A “critical” security flaw has been found in Clam Antivirus (ClamAV) software that attackers or viruses could exploit to take control over computers running the software. The vulnerability has to do with the way ClamAV looks at executable programs modified by a popular free file compression utility called UPX (short for the “ultimate packer for

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Quicktime patches for Mac and Windows

Myantispyware team January 11, 2006 No Comment Critical patch, Tips

Apple released a security update to Quicktime. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303101 There are multiple vulnerabilities patched. To summarize the advisory: A maliciously-crafted GIF/TIFF/TGA/QTIF image or multimedia file may result in arbitrary code execution. Well that pretty much covers the whole web browsing thing. Update your Quicktime now.

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SpyBot Update 06.01.06

Myantispyware team January 9, 2006 No Comment Updates

SpyBot Definition File Update 06.01.06 Hijacker + CoolWWWSearch.Feat2Installer + CoolWWWSearch.Service + CoolWWWSearch.Feat2DLL Keylogger + Perfect Keylogger Malware + ErrorSafe + Smitfraud-C. + SpyAxe + SpyTrooper + E2Give + Pacimedia + Deskwizz + DyFuCA.InternetOptimizer + MaxSearch + ConsumerAlertSystem + BookedSpace + WinFixer2005 + Zeno PUPS + MalwareWipe Spyware + 180Solutions.SearchAssistant + 180Solutions.SearchAssistant.Boomerang + 180Solutions.MediaGatewayX Trojan +

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Microsoft WMF patch available for download

Myantispyware team January 5, 2006 No Comment Critical patch, Tips

Many of you already know this if you receive advance notification from Microsoft. For everybody else, see their announcement about an early release of the WMF patch. The patch and details about it are available here. If you have installed any of the earlier patches or workarounds, here is our recommendation for updating: 1. Reboot

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