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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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How to remove SpywareStrike

Myantispyware team January 8, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

SpywareStrike is a program that displays an icon in the system tray. This icons shows a balloon, which says that your computer is infected with dangerous spyware parasites and asks the user to download and install an antispyware program, which actually is SpywareStrike. Once the user clicks on such balloon, the trojan opens the official

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New IM Worm Targets AIM Users to Deliver Adware Payload

Myantispyware team January 7, 2006 No Comment Worms

The new worm targets PC hosts infected with lockx.exe or palsp.exe and utilizes IRC enabled malware to connect the host to a server for further infection through a series of commands. One of the commands has the ability to control the AIM client on the infected host and send a message containing links to the

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More fake security sites

Myantispyware team January 7, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

dnserror404(dot)com todaywarnings(dot)com updatesystempage(dot)com yoursecuritysystem(dot)com Pages are advertising several anti-spyware programs, all on the Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware list. Don`t install these programs. More here and here

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New rogue anti-spyware – SpywareStrike

Myantispyware team January 6, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tips

It is downloaded with spyware just like its twin SpyAxe. The SpywareStrike website is identical to the SpyAxe site except for the name. The domain registration information looks familiar, too. Domain Name: SPYWARESTRIKE.COM Registrant: Keramitsu LLC David Alan Taylor 321th Melburn Street Seattle Washington,98107 US Tel. +207.9545521 Like the SpyAxe.com registration information, this looks bogus.

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How to remove the Aurora, Nail.exe, Epolvy Hijackers

Myantispyware team January 5, 2006 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Malware removal, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Nail.exe is a is a hijacker which means it will intermittently change your Internet Explorer settings / Desktop to the link of it’s author’s sponsors. This program is usually installed through consent, however is sometimes packaged as another product. Aurora.exe is an advertising program by Aurora. This process monitors your browsing habits and distributes the

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Panda Software publishes a free tool to eliminate the Nabload.U and Banker.BSX Trojans

Myantispyware team December 30, 2005 No Comment Free Software, Trojan

The explosive propagation of the Nabload.U and Banker.BSX Trojans has left thousands of computers around the world infected. Panda Software has therefore made its PQRemove utility available to all users to detect and remove these Trojans from any infected computer. This utility can be downloaded from http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/. Currently, Banker.BSX and Nabload.U hold first and second

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