Threats | My AntiSpyware - Part 887

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Santa IM Worm

Myantispyware team December 23, 2005 No Comment Worms

A new worm posing as a come-on to a Santa Claus site is traveling across all the major instant messaging networks, a security firm warned Tuesday, and when recipients visit the bogus site, they’re infected with a file hidden from sight by a rootkit. IMlogic said that the worm, dubbed “M.GiftCom.All,” is circulating on the

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How to remove Needupdate (securityerrors) hijacker (uninstall)

Myantispyware team December 20, 2005 5 Comments Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Also you can try the tutorial, if you have got redirect to these domains: dns404.net, needupdate.com, yoursystemupdate.com, systemwarning.com, warningmessage.com, syserrors.com, notfound404.com, updateyoursystem.com, securityerrors.com, hdnsservidce.com, downldboost.com You should to download some programs to aide in our fix :Do Not Run Them now 1. Download smitRem.exe and save to your desktop. Double- click it to extract it

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Top 10 rogue anti-spyware

Myantispyware team December 19, 2005 1 Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tips

What is rogue anti-spyware? Rogue anti-spyware programs are defined by spyware and anti-spyware expert Eric Howes on the Rogue/Suspect Anti-Spyware Products and Sites page. “Rogue/Suspect” means that these products are of unknown, questionable, or dubious value as anti-spyware protection. Some of the products listed on this page simply do not provide proven, reliable anti-spyware protection

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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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