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How To Remove Spylocked And Spywarelocked rogue antispyware

Myantispyware team March 27, 2007 3 Comments Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo

SpyLocked (SpywareeLocked) is the fake anti-spyware, or rogue antispyware program. This program usually installed itself onto your PC without your permission, through Zlob Trojan, Virus, fake audio/video codecs. SpyLocked will show fake system alerts or fake security alerts to trick user to buy the Paid Version of SpyLocked. Symptoms: fake security warnings popup in the

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Found new way for steal data encrypted using SSL/TLS

Myantispyware team March 26, 2007 No Comment Identity Theft, Malware

Russian malware authors are finding new ways to steal and profit from data which used to be considered safe from thieves because it was encrypted using SSL/TLS. A single attack by a single variant compromises more than 5200 hosts and 10,000 user accounts on hundreds of sites. Steals SSL data using advanced Winsock2 functionality State-of-the-art,

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Top malwares sorted by category

Myantispyware team March 26, 2007 2 Comments Malware

1. Greediest Trojan Targeting Banks – this month, it’s Trojan- Spy.Win32.Banker.zd, which targets the clients of 33 banks. And just as we keep saying, the number of Trojans which target more than one bank is growing all the time. 2. Greediest Trojan Targeting E-payment Systems – The winner in this category is Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker.z. This Trojan

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Trojan Zlob spreading on MySpace

Myantispyware team March 2, 2007 No Comment Trojan

F-Secure labs found something new spreading on MySpace. It ends up modifying existing profiles, overlaying the content with a message like this: If you follow the link, you’ll end up with a download. This is a Zlob variant. Zlob is a Trojan. Zlob attempts to hiddenly download and run other files from remote web sites

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Fill your blacklist again, found new rogue antispyware apps

Myantispyware team February 9, 2007 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

Spyware Warrior reported about new rogue antispyware apps # Ad Armor # Fixer AntiSpy # Spy Analyst # Spy Officer

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Mirar Toolbar – Unwanted Tool ? YES

Myantispyware team February 2, 2007 No Comment Adware

Sunbelt have finished review process. They concludes that the Mirar Toolbar product does, in fact, satisfy Sunbelt’s objective criteria for a Potentially Unwanted Installation. Currently Sunbelt classifies the Mirar toolbar as a “moderate risk” “adware toolbar.” Mirar toolbar is marked by a number of problems including: poor installation practices resulting in inadequate notice and disclosure

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Found new rogue antispyware apps – SpyMarshal, AntiVermins (AntiVerminser)

Myantispyware team February 2, 2007 1 Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

Bleepingcomputer team found new rogue antispyware apps: SpyMarshal, AntiVermins (AntiVerminser). AntiVermins (AntiVerminser) AntiVermins, like all rogue antispyware apps, uses misleading advertising, false positives, and fake scan reports as a scare tactic for you to purchase the commercial version of their application. Symptoms in a HijackThis Log: O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [AntiVermins] C:\Program Files\AntiVermins\AntiVermins.exe /h O4 –

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Found new fake codecs – SilverCodec and BrainCodec

Myantispyware team December 1, 2006 No Comment Adware, Malware

Sunbelt blog and Bleepingcomputer reported about two new fake codecs: SilverCodec and BrainCodec This is so new in fact, that though the BrainCodec has its own domain and its own braincodec.107.exe, they forgot to change the web site itself. As you can see the web site is still showing the layout and image for Gold

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More fake codec sites

Myantispyware team November 21, 2006 No Comment Adware, Malware

As always, DO NOT download these fake codecs. They do not improve video or audio, and installing them under the premise of “free video” or any other reason is a very bad idea. MovieCodec TV Codec WatchFree SuperCodec Perfect Codec Related articles: How to remove malicious codecs.

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Putin’s death can kill your computer

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Trojan

Viruslist reported about new spam message. Subject: ATTENTION !!! President of Russia has dead.Attention!!! Vladimir Putin has dead. Visit immediately to http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/8/hi/russia/********.stmBBC, BBC World and their respective logos are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Logos © 1996 The link in this ‘sensational’ message appears to lead to the BBC site – an organization

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