August, 2006 | MyAntiSpyware

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Found new Internet Explorer Vulnerability

Myantispyware team August 31, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities

Found Internet Explorer (daxctle.ocx) Heap Overflow Vulnerability. When Internet Explorer handle DirectAnimation.PathControl COM object(daxctle.ocx) Spline method, Set the first parameter to 0xffffffff will triggers an invalid memory write, That an attacker may DoS and possibly could execute arbitrary code. Affected windows version: Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows 2003 Windows users.. check out Firefox, Opera, and

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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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How to remove DriveCleaner (Uninstall instructions)

Myantispyware team August 31, 2006 No Comment Tutorials - HowTo

Drive Cleaner is rogue privacy/security program that gives exaggerated reports of security and privacy risks on a computer. The program then prompts the user to purchase a registered version of the software in order to remove the reported risks. During installation, DriveCleaner configures itself to run automatically every time, when you start your computer. Once

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Java extremely important update

Myantispyware team August 30, 2006 No Comment Updates

Sun has released a fresh update for Java Runtime Environment. This is an extremely important update. JRE has long been used to install malware as it contains numerous vulnerabilities which allow remote code execution. Another important factor is that JRE works with all web browsers. This means that a vulnerability in JRE will affect all

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Don’t be a victim or how to make better choices

Myantispyware team August 28, 2006 No Comment Tips

There are some current tools out there which may help users make better choices (or block their bad choices). I’m just going to talk about browser toolbars.

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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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SpoofStick

Myantispyware team August 26, 2006 No Comment Free Software

A spoofed website is typically made to look like a well known, branded site (like ebay.com or citibank.com) with a slightly different or confusing URL. The attacker then tries to trick people into going to the spoofed site by sending out fake email messages or posting links in public places – hoping that some percentage

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NoScript very nice toolbar for FireFox

Myantispyware team August 26, 2006 No Comment Free Software

Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content only for trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site. This whitelist based preemptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts do agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript 😉

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HostsMan 3.0 beta for Windows was released

Myantispyware team August 23, 2006 No Comment Free Software

HostsMan is a freeware application that lets you manage your Hosts file with ease. You can use a HOSTS file to block ads, banners, 3rd party Cookies, 3rd party page counters, web bugs, and even most hijackers. This is accomplished by blocking the Server that supplies these little gems.

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