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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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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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How to block VML exploit

Myantispyware team September 20, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Some days ago has been found new Zero day exploit. The exploit uses a bug in VML in Internet Explorer to overflow a buffer and inject shellcode. It is currently on and off again at a number of sites. Secunia reported: The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the Microsoft Vector Graphics

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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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