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  • New malware poses as Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification

    Myantispyware team June 30, 2006     4 Comments     Malware

    A new piece of very nasty malware has been recently discovered on spyware help forums, first here and again here. The file name is wgavn.exe and it creates a service named “Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification”, as seen in this line in the HijackThis log. O23 – Service: Windows Genuine Advantage Validation Notification (wgavn) –

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  • SMS text messages used to spread malware/keylogger

    Myantispyware team June 27, 2006     No Comment     Malware, Trojan

    CA has received reports of Win32/Bambo.CF being distributed via SMS text messages sent to mobile phones, enticing people to visit a malicious website. The messages may contain the following: Thanks for subscribing to *****.com dating service. If you don’t unsubscribe you will be charged $2 per day. The text message then directs the recipient to

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  • Found new rogue antispyware – AdwareFinder

    Myantispyware team June 26, 2006     No Comment     Rogue Anti Spyware

    Found new rogue antispyware – AdwareFinder. The program claims it detects and destroys spyware, yet it is part of engagemarketing(dot)com which is being bundled via Dollarrevenue. URL: www(dot)adwarefinder(dot)com/AdwareFinder_download(dot)html Thanks to Sunbeltblog.

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  • Found Mailbot family that use ADS hidden streams to hide themselves

    Myantispyware team June 23, 2006     No Comment     Rootkit

    F-Secure reported Mailbot family that use hidden streams to hide themselves. Let’s take Mailbot.AZ(aka Rustock.A) as an example. Mailbot.AZ is a kernel-mode rootkit that modifies the kernel to hide its presence on the compromised system. It contains an encrypted payload that will be executed in the context of a process named “services.exe”. The payload is

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  • New worm disables Security Software

    Myantispyware team June 20, 2006     2 Comments     Worms

    Sanbeltblog reported about new World Cup Soccer Worm. The worm arrives as an E-mail attachment with one of the following subjects and message bodys: Subjects: 1. Soccer fans killed five teens 2. Crazy soccer fans 3. Please reply me Tomas 4. My tricks for you 5. Naked World Cup game set 6. My sister whores,

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  • Another rogue antispyware app for your blacklist – Trust Cleaner

    Myantispyware team June 16, 2006     No Comment     Rogue Anti Spyware

    Bleepingcomputer blog and Sunbelt blog reported about rogue antispyware – Trust Cleaner. At first view, this rogue anti-spyware application works the same way as the other ones that have been released lately like SpyFalcon and SpywareQuake as it uses trojans to display fake warnings that act as a goad to make you purchase the full

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  • Found new rogue antispyware – Titan Shield

    Myantispyware team June 12, 2006     No Comment     Rogue Anti Spyware

    Found new rogue antispyware – Titan Shield. Available at antispywarebox(dot)com (a new rogue site) and titanshield(dot)com If you can`t uninstall or remove, ask about help: Spyware Removal Forum

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  • More fake codecs – nvidcodec, media-codec

    Myantispyware team June 6, 2006     No Comment     Malware, Trojan

    Found new fake codec – nvidcodec. The codec is malicious programecs that deliver popup advertisements and hijack search engine results. Some AV vendors detected the codec as Trojan.Downloader.Zlob

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  • Pornmagpass – free pass to get popups, rogue antispyware, toolbar.

    Myantispyware team June 6, 2006     No Comment     Trojan

    Sunbeltblog reported about new adware – pornmagpass. There’s a new adware detected some AV engines as trojan: AVG – Downloader.Zlob.AOI ClamAV – Trojan.Downloader.Zlob-471 EtrustVet – Win32/Beovens.FT Fortinet – suspicious Ikarus – Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob.ni The EULA says: SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: Components bundled with our software may report to Licensor and/or its affiliates the installation status of certain marketing

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  • How to remove NEED2FIND and RXToolbar

    Myantispyware team June 1, 2006     No Comment     Adware, Tutorials - HowTo

    Need2Find is an adware promoted by Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves distributes a variety of programs that offer users some trinket of apparent value (e.g. smileys for email programs) while also adding an extra toolbar to users’ web browsers. Ask Jeeves promotes these programs in ways that do not entail meaningful user consent.

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