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3 new Trojans for Symbian operating system

Myantispyware team January 21, 2006 No Comment Trojan

Symantec today has posted 3 new trojans identified that impact your operating system. SymbOS.Sendtool.A – The Trojan horse drops a hacktool that can be used to send malicious programs, such as variants of the SymbOS.PBStealer family of Trojans, to other mobile devices via Bluetooth. SymbOS.Pbstealer.D – The Trojan sends the user’s contact information database, Notepad,

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Vulnerability in F-Secure products

Myantispyware team January 21, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities

F-Secure have released security advisory FSC-2006-1. Brief description Specially crafted ZIP archives may be used to execute code on affected systems. Both RAR- and ZIP-archives can in addition be crafted to avoid successful scanning and obfuscate malicious code in the archive. Software F-Secure’s Anti-Virus products for Microsoft Windows and Linux Affected versions F-Secure Anti-Virus for

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Raze Spyware installs keylogger

Myantispyware team January 21, 2006 No Comment Rogue Anti Spyware

Sunbelt team has been observing Raze Spyware being silently installed without user consent through various exploits. Raze Spyware is already a long time member of Eric Howes Rouge Anti-Spyware products list. Dubious installation methods are a common practice for these Rogue Anti-Spyware applications. To make matters worse, we have also found a fake keylogger being

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Pest Trap – new rogue anti spyware

Myantispyware team January 19, 2006 9 Comments Rogue Anti Spyware

Pest Trap is a variant of the infamous SpySheriff, downloadable from pesttrap(dot)com SpySheriff is one of these nasty rogue antispyare applications, was one of the top 10 rogue anti-spyware apps of 2005, coming in at number 2. PestTrap was found being advertised on a new fake security center web page, uptodatesecurity.com . I don’t recommend

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Attention: new email virus

Myantispyware team January 18, 2006 No Comment Virus

F-secure has information on a fairly aggressive new email virus. Their name for it is VB.bi although it’s aliases are…. W32.Blackmal.E@mm, WORM_GREW.A, W32/Nyxem-D, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi depending on which AV vendor you check with. It’s a worm as well, in that it tries to spread through remote shares. It attempts to disable antivirus software as well. Here

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StartupList version 2

Myantispyware team January 16, 2006 No Comment Free Software

The new version shows a ton of new autostart locations in a nice treeview, along with help text for each section. The right-click menu of each item offers options to show the file or Registry key, or copy the information to the clipboard. A very special thanks to TonyKlein for his Collection of Autostart Locations,

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WMF exploit and Phishing

Myantispyware team January 16, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Identity Theft

F-secure labs have found a phishing scam exploiting this vulnerability. This scam works by sending out emails, urging customers of the global HSBC bank to visit a site called www[dot]jhsbc[dot]com. This domain, naturally, has nothing to with the real bank but it sounds close enough. The site is running on a owned home computer somewhere

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Spybot S&D Update 13 January 2006

Myantispyware team January 15, 2006 No Comment Malware removal, Updates

Hijacker + Web-Nexus + MaxSearch + Mirar + CoolWWWSearch.Feat2Installer + CoolWWWSearch.Service + CoolWWWSearch.Feat2DLL Malware ++ SurfEnhance ++ FCHelp + CAS-Client + WinFixer2005 + Adware.Webext + Pacimedia + Deskwizz ++ AUpdater + MediaMotor PUPS ++ AdwarePunisher ++ SpyiBlock Security + Windows.Explorer Spyware ++ iTunes.602 ++ 007 Spy Software + Exact Advertising.BargainsBuddy Trojan + Z-Quest + Elitum.EliteBar

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Why WMF is not a “Critical” issue on the Windows 9x platform

Myantispyware team January 15, 2006 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities

It’s technical, but if you can wade through it, it’s well worth the read With WMF we want to be very clear: the Windows 9x platform is not vulnerable to any “Critical” attack vector. The reason Windows 9x is not vulnerable to a “Critical” attack vector is because an additional step exists in the Win9x

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Symantec uses rootkit-type techniques for hide files

Myantispyware team January 15, 2006 1 Comment Critical patch

News.com reports Symantec has released an update to its popular Norton SystemWorks to fix a security problem that could be abused by cybercriminals to hide malicious software In the PC-tuning application, a feature called the Norton Protected Recycle Bin creates a hidden directory on Windows systems. The feature is meant to help people restore modified

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