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Beware Vcodec

Myantispyware team December 17, 2005 1 Comment Trojan, Virus

Wondering how people get to these bogus security sites and download junk like SpyAxe? Patrick Jordan and Adam Thomas on SunBelt spyware research team have been investigating Vcodec.com. This is a site that has a program called “VCodec v3.05b is new generation multimedia compressor/decompressor which registers into the Windows collection of multimedia drivers…” This is

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New email virus Beagle on the war path

Myantispyware team December 16, 2005 No Comment Virus

A new Beagle/Bagle variant is making the rounds. It comes in an almost empty email, as a ZIP attachment containing the worm as an EXE. The attachment name, email subject and sole text content of the email all seem to be male or female names. Keep your eyes peeled, especially if your users are reading

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Trojan masquerading as Microsoft Update

Myantispyware team December 13, 2005 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Trojan

Reported in Codefish. We checked out this Trojan and it’s not very friendly. Here is what the email looks like: Microsoft Security Bulletin MS05-039 Vulnerability in Plug and Play Could Allow Remote Code Execution and Elevation of Privilege (899588) Summary: Who should receive this document: Customers who use Microsoft Windows Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code

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Antother note about SpyAxe

Myantispyware team December 12, 2005 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Rogue Anti Spyware, Tips

Juha-Matti has pointed out an interesting Trojan.Spaxe. The interesting part is that it will display a balloon message, attempting to fake from the Windows Automatic Updates icon on the System Tray, with the following text: Body: Your computer is infected! Windows has detected spyware infection. It is recommended to use special antispyware tools to prevent

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How to remove WinFixer

Myantispyware team December 6, 2005 1 Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo

WinFixer is a bogus (rogue) anti-spyware and spam-blocking application downloaded mainly from popup ads that would be convincing to the average user. It is also bundled with certain free downloadable applications. The program requires you to buy it for about $30. When bought, it scans the computer and replicates the cookie-handling function of Internet Explorer,

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New AIM worm

Myantispyware team December 6, 2005 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Worms

Malware authors just opened their own holiday season. We received couple of reports of a new AIM worm spreading. The worm is simple and doesn’t exploit any vulnerability; instead it relies on social engineering. The user will receive the following AIM message: “This AIM user has sent you a Greetings Card, to open it visit:

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Hijack Removal “How to”

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Any of the products below will remove most hijackers completely, unless it is one which has just started spreading. Spybot S&D [recommended] Ad-aware If you have a hijack that is not fixed by any of these products, you may use these solutions below that I have gathered after helping to fix these same problems countless

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Browser Hijacking

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking

There is a despicable trend that is becoming more and more common wherein the browser settings of web surfers are being hijacked forcibly by malicious web sites and software which modifies your default start and search pages. Sometimes internet shortcuts will be added to your favorites folder without asking you. The purpose of this is

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How to remove CWS Hijacker

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

This is old news, but and now many peoples have a question: “How to remove CWS Hijacker from my pc ?“. Read below. CWS is a trojan that hijacks Internet Explorer start and search settings to one of several different web sites (see below). Most of these web sites appear to have an affiliate relationship

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Ewido security suite 3.5 – Complement your existing protection system today

Myantispyware team November 27, 2005 2 Comments Malware removal, Trojan, Virus

Ewido anti-spyware 4.0 will now continue under the new product name AVG Internet Security. AVG Internet Security is comprehensive real-time protection against all Internet threats. AVG Internet Security offer you realtime protection against these threats. Hijackers and Spyware. Secure surfing in the Internet without fear of annoying changes of the start page of your browser,

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