October, 2006 | MyAntiSpyware

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Putin’s death can kill your computer

Myantispyware team October 26, 2006 No Comment Trojan

Viruslist reported about new spam message. Subject: ATTENTION !!! President of Russia has dead.Attention!!! Vladimir Putin has dead. Visit immediately to http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/8/hi/russia/********.stmBBC, BBC World and their respective logos are trade marks of the British Broadcasting Corporation, Logos © 1996 The link in this ‘sensational’ message appears to lead to the BBC site – an organization

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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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New version Comodo Free Firewall

Myantispyware team October 2, 2006 2 Comments Free Software

Comodo Firewall is one of the smartest firewalls you can ever see. While providing answers to firewall questions, users usually do not understand the complex questions which involve complicated connection details like IP addresses, Ports, Application paths etc.

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Found new vulnerability in the Internet Explorer / how to protect

Myantispyware team October 2, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities

Found new vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user’s system. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Windows Shell and is exposed via the “setSlice()” method in the WebViewFolderIcon ActiveX control (webvw.dll). This can e.g. be exploited via Internet Explorer by a malicious website

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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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