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More fake codec sites or story continue…

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Adware

The story continue… some days ago Sunbeltblog reported about fresh fake codec sites. Codec is actually a trojan download installer, It will change your home page to one of the current security scam site used like iupdate.com. It produces unwanted popup to sell rough security software or open to porn content type pages like adultfriendfinders[dot]com.

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SpamThru Trojan – malware who detects and removes another malware

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Malware, Trojan

Like many viruses and trojans, SpamThru attempts to prevent installed anti-virus software from downloading updates by adding entries into the %sysdir%\drivers\etc\hosts file pointing the AV update sites to the localhost address. In the past, we’ve also seen malware which tries to uproot other competing malware on an infected system by killing its processes, removing its

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Found new rogue antispyware – PestCapture / how to remove

Myantispyware team October 11, 2006 No Comment Malware removal, Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo

Sunbelt blog reported about new rogue antispyware PestCapture. PestCapture uses dlls that are the same as that of another rogue antispyware – Spysheriff For protect your PC, add these sites into your blocklist: pesttrap(dot)com pesttrap(dot)com Innovagest2000(dot)com 1stantivirus(dot)com Anti-virus-pro(dot)com Spycontra(dot)com Spydeface(dot)com Virushammer(dot)com For remove PestCapture from your computer, make follow steps: Download CCleaner. Double click on

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MSN Worm Used to install Backdoor | How to remove

Myantispyware team October 1, 2006 No Comment Adware, Worms

F Secure have received reports from customers of suspicious pop-ups that were being spammed through MSN Messenger. Below is a sample message: lol check 🙂 http://peopleonline.pe.funpic.de/[REMOVED].pif When the link in the message is clicked, it automatically downloads a file named photo942.PIF. This file is the backdoor component of Licat.C This is used to connect to

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More fake codec sites

Myantispyware team September 20, 2006 No Comment Adware

Sunbeltblog reported (1, 2) about two fresh fake codes sites. Strcodec MP Video Codec Add both sites in to your blocklist. Use follow info: 69.50.160.58 Mpcodec.com 85.255.118.194 strcodec.com Related articles: How to remove malicious codecs.

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Worm uses MS04-007, MS05-017, MS05-039, MS06-040 bugs

Myantispyware team August 31, 2006 No Comment Worms

For the past several days, ISC have received all kinds of emails about the recent increase in scanning on port 139. One of loyal readers out there on the ‘Information SuperHighway’, Alex Pettinger, wrote and and gave us some netstat and fport outputs from one of his machines that seemed to be affected by the

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Sophos Anti-Rootkit Eliminates hidden applications and processes

Myantispyware team August 28, 2006 No Comment Free Software, Rootkit

Free Sophos Anti-Rootkit, finds and removes any rootkit that is hidden on your computer. Removing rootkits without compromising system integrity is particularly challenging and needs to be done with care.

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Netcraft Toolbar

Myantispyware team August 27, 2006 No Comment Free Software, Phishing

Netcraft has a really nice toolbar which can provide visual clues as well as speed bumps to doing something unsafe. It can actually block access to a site pending user verification (ok so we all know most users click OK on anything that pops up to get it out of the way).

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SmartBrowser have smart EULA

Myantispyware team July 27, 2006 No Comment Adware

Spywareguide reported about site enticing an end-user to install something they think they need, only to pull the rug out from under them and reveal that (in actual fact), is was this program over here that they needed all along! The site is a typical free movies / webcam website. This site displays numerous videos

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Wanna free anti spyware ? Get Adware.

Myantispyware team July 18, 2006 No Comment Adware

Adware comes in all forms, and this time, it’s under the false pretense of being Webroot’s Spysweeper 5. To be specific, there is a torrent for SpySweeper 5 that comes with a “keygen” to bypass registration, but when executed it is actually adware —a 180solutions installer. It immediately connects to the net and then installs

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