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First reports of Nyxem damage

Myantispyware team January 31, 2006 No Comment Virus

The destructive deadline of the Nyxem.E worm is based on the clock of the infected machine. So if you’re infected and your clock is not set right, things could start to happen at any time – even though the official activation time is the 3rd of the month. F secure have already received first reports

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New version GPCode virus

Myantispyware team January 28, 2006 No Comment Virus

Kaspersky Lab intercepted a new variant of GPCode, Virus.Win32.GPCode.ac. This program, like its predecessors, encrypts users’ files. The author of the program demands payment for decrypting the files. The new variant of GPCode was widely spammed throughout the Russian segement of the Internet. In spite of our warnings not to open attachments to email if

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New trojan download spammed

Myantispyware team January 28, 2006 No Comment Trojan

New trojan downloader is just being heavily spammed. It comes with subject “YOUR BILL PAYMENT NOT APPROVED!” and message like this: “We are unable to obtain the bill payment from your bank account. Your bank returned the following error to us: BILL PAYMENT NOT APPROVED BILL #5563880”. Attached in the message is a small downloader

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How to remove BlackWorm, W32.Blackmal.E@mm, WORM_GREW.A, W32/Nyxem-D, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi

Myantispyware team January 25, 2006 No Comment Tutorials - HowTo, Virus, Worms

To manually recover from infection , perform the following steps: 1. Disconnect from the Internet. 2. End the worm process. 3. Delete the worm files from your computer. 4. Delete the worm registry entry. 5. Take steps to prevent re-infection. Disconnect from the Internet To help ensure that your computer is not actively infecting other

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3 new Trojans for Symbian operating system

Myantispyware team January 21, 2006 No Comment Trojan

Symantec today has posted 3 new trojans identified that impact your operating system. SymbOS.Sendtool.A – The Trojan horse drops a hacktool that can be used to send malicious programs, such as variants of the SymbOS.PBStealer family of Trojans, to other mobile devices via Bluetooth. SymbOS.Pbstealer.D – The Trojan sends the user’s contact information database, Notepad,

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Raze Spyware installs keylogger

Myantispyware team January 21, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

Sunbelt team has been observing Raze Spyware being silently installed without user consent through various exploits. Raze Spyware is already a long time member of Eric Howes Rouge Anti-Spyware products list. Dubious installation methods are a common practice for these Rogue Anti-Spyware applications. To make matters worse, we have also found a fake keylogger being

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Pest Trap – new rogue anti spyware

Myantispyware team January 19, 2006 9 Comments Rogue Anti Spyware

Pest Trap is a variant of the infamous SpySheriff, downloadable from pesttrap(dot)com SpySheriff is one of these nasty rogue antispyare applications, was one of the top 10 rogue anti-spyware apps of 2005, coming in at number 2. PestTrap was found being advertised on a new fake security center web page, uptodatesecurity.com . I don’t recommend

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Attention: new email virus

Myantispyware team January 18, 2006 No Comment Virus

F-secure has information on a fairly aggressive new email virus. Their name for it is VB.bi although it’s aliases are…. W32.Blackmal.E@mm, WORM_GREW.A, W32/Nyxem-D, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi depending on which AV vendor you check with. It’s a worm as well, in that it tries to spread through remote shares. It attempts to disable antivirus software as well. Here

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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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HOSTS file hijacking and bank password stealing

Myantispyware team January 13, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking

HOSTS file hijacking combined with bank password stealing trojans is one of the more egregious spyware tricks currently being seen. Here’s the scenario. A user is infected with a trojan and other malware that, among other things, changes the HOSTS file so that websites commonly used for online banking are redirected to the spyware pusher/thief’s

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First reports of Nyxem damage

New version GPCode virus

New trojan download spammed

How to remove BlackWorm, W32.Blackmal.E@mm, WORM_GREW.A, W32/Nyxem-D, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi

3 new Trojans for Symbian operating system

Raze Spyware installs keylogger

Pest Trap – new rogue anti spyware

Attention: new email virus

WMF exploit and Phishing

HOSTS file hijacking and bank password stealing

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