The team over at VirusTotal has added the F-Secure Anti-Virus and eTrust-InoculateIT to their lineup of scanners. VirusTotal is a free, independent service that analyzes suspicious files using multiple antivirus engines. From there, you can easily check to see if F-Secure Anti-Virus have detection for something new that you’ve found. In the near future F
This vulnerability, coupled with an additional trick, allows the attacker to read arbitrary user-accessible files on the system, and thus steal some fairly sensitive information. Vulnerable Systems: Firefox version 1.5.0.9 For security reasons, Firefox does not allow Internet-originating websites to access the file:// namespace. When the user chooses to manually allow a blocked popup however,
Sunbelt have finished review process. They concludes that the Mirar Toolbar product does, in fact, satisfy Sunbelt’s objective criteria for a Potentially Unwanted Installation. Currently Sunbelt classifies the Mirar toolbar as a “moderate risk” “adware toolbar.” Mirar toolbar is marked by a number of problems including: poor installation practices resulting in inadequate notice and disclosure
Bleepingcomputer team found new rogue antispyware apps: SpyMarshal, AntiVermins (AntiVerminser). AntiVermins (AntiVerminser) AntiVermins, like all rogue antispyware apps, uses misleading advertising, false positives, and fake scan reports as a scare tactic for you to purchase the commercial version of their application. Symptoms in a HijackThis Log: O4 – HKLM\..\Run: [AntiVermins] C:\Program Files\AntiVermins\AntiVermins.exe /h O4 –
Sunbelt blog and Bleepingcomputer reported about two new fake codecs: SilverCodec and BrainCodec This is so new in fact, that though the BrainCodec has its own domain and its own braincodec.107.exe, they forgot to change the web site itself. As you can see the web site is still showing the layout and image for Gold
As always, DO NOT download these fake codecs. They do not improve video or audio, and installing them under the premise of “free video” or any other reason is a very bad idea. MovieCodec TV Codec WatchFree SuperCodec Perfect Codec Related articles: How to remove malicious codecs.
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.
