Trojan | MyAntiSpyware - Part 14

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New exploit blows by fully patched Windows XP systems

Myantispyware team December 28, 2005 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Trojan

SecurityFocus just posted a bulletin on it. Microsoft Windows WMF graphics rendering engine is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. The problem presents itself when a user views a malicious WMF formatted file, triggering the vulnerability when the engine attempts to parse the file. The issue may be exploited remotely or by a local

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Santa Claus leaves you a Trojan for Christmas

Myantispyware team December 23, 2005 No Comment Trojan

– A new Trojan, MerryX.A, reaches victims in an email with the subject “MERRY CHRISTMAS!”, and hides behind an animation with Santa Claus and Christmas music – This Trojan joins the list of malware species that take advantage of the massive sending of Christmas cards via email to enter users’ computers PandaLabs reports the appearance

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Adware in exchange for videos and music in P2P

Myantispyware team December 23, 2005 No Comment Malware removal, Trojan

PandaLabs has detected a series of files being circulated across the Internet that supposedly contain music and videos, but also contain a poisonous gift: in order to get the videos and music, users must install adware. The excuse used is that a license is needed in order to play the files, which involves agreeing to

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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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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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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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How to Remove Trojan Vundo / Winfixer / Virtumonde?

Myantispyware team November 26, 2005 No Comment Trojan, Tutorials - HowTo

VirtuMonde is an adware program that downloads and displays popup advertisements. It may also hijack the browser to unwanted advertising related sites. There is a free removal tool offered by Symantec here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.vundo.removal.tool.html Follow the removal directions on the download page. Run the tool twice with a reboot inbetween to be sure it got everything.

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