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YapBrowser is back online

Myantispyware team May 31, 2006 No Comment Adware

Some time ago we`ve reported about the adware: YapBrowser, potentially dangerous application that pre-installs 180Solutions Zango and does nothing but apparently redirect you to a porn site. Read more: YapBrowser and Yapsearch(dot)com now yapbrowser site back online. The website claims: YapBrowser is a browser which will make searching for any information online much simpler. Download

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Spam emails and fake Microsoft patch

Myantispyware team May 29, 2006 No Comment Trojan

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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Banwarum Worm Offers Tickets for the WORLD CUP

Myantispyware team May 28, 2006 No Comment Worms

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

Myantispyware team May 28, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking

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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How to remove Spyware Sheriff and Antispylab

Myantispyware team May 18, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo

Spyware Sheriff is an rogue antispyware application that uses Trojans and other malware into tricking or scaring you into purchasing it. If you are infected with this malware, your Internet Explorer home page will be reset to about:blank and display a fake Windows Security Center alert stating that you are possibly infected. When you click

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New rogue antispyware – SpywareSheriff

Myantispyware team May 5, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

SpywareSheriff, a new rogue antispyware application that is starting to infect a lot of users. This particular infection is harder to remove than other variants such as SpywareQuake and SpyFalcon. This is because it uses a lot of random names for the files. It is, though, easy to tell when you are infected with this

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New ransomware found

Myantispyware team May 1, 2006 No Comment Virus

A new piece of ransomware, called Ransom.a by most AV vendors, has been spotted in the wild. Evidence received so far suggests that this Trojan can be found on P2P networks. The malware poses as a Windows Mobile application, despite that description it will only work on Win32. When the user is infected and reboots

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Found new rogue antispyware – Spyware Soft Stop

Myantispyware team April 18, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

Sunbelt blog reported about new rogue antispyware Spyware Soft Stop. If you have the misfortune to run an executable named “sss_bot.exe”, you’ll get presented with a fake (and poorly worded) security message: Warning! Your computer is probably infected. Microsoft Corporation recommends you to check your computer on the spyware presents. Click here to download updates

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Found new fake codec – emcodec

Myantispyware team April 7, 2006 No Comment Trojan

Emcodec is a Trojan horse that drops and executes a copy of Trojan-Zlob-J, a back door Trojan that allows the remote attacker to perform various malicious actions on the compromised computer. The Trojan is an installer for eMediaCodec that is a codec for Windows Media Player. If you can`t uninstall or remove, post to spyware

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How to remove Trojan Vundo

Myantispyware team April 2, 2006 3 Comments Trojan, Tutorials - HowTo

Trojan Vundo also known as VirtuMonde and Adware.VirtuMonde is a very dangerous infection. The trojan uses rootkit-specific techniques designed to hide the software presence in the system (random names, random autorun locations and random CLSIDs). Once running, trojan Vundo will displays popup advertisements and a fake security alerts, offers to install other potentially unwanted software

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