More than 20 percent of all malware removed from Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2) systems are stealth rootkits, according to senior official in Microsoft Corp.’s security unit. Jason Garms, architect and group program manager in Microsoft’s Anti-Malware Technology Team, said the open-source FU rootkit ranks high on the list of malicious software programs deleted
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First Vulnerability for Firefox 1.5
Today i have read the news 🙁 New FireFox and First Vulnerability …. When Firefox 1.5 was officially released I wondered when the first security vulnerability would be announced. To be fair, it’s taken longer than I thought it would. Packetstorm Security has released proof of concept code that causes a buffer overflow and denial
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How to remove WinFixer
WinFixer is a bogus (rogue) anti-spyware and spam-blocking application downloaded mainly from popup ads that would be convincing to the average user. It is also bundled with certain free downloadable applications. The program requires you to buy it for about $30. When bought, it scans the computer and replicates the cookie-handling function of Internet Explorer,
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New AIM worm
Malware authors just opened their own holiday season. We received couple of reports of a new AIM worm spreading. The worm is simple and doesn’t exploit any vulnerability; instead it relies on social engineering. The user will receive the following AIM message: “This AIM user has sent you a Greetings Card, to open it visit:
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Hijack Removal “How to”
Any of the products below will remove most hijackers completely, unless it is one which has just started spreading. Spybot S&D [recommended] Ad-aware If you have a hijack that is not fixed by any of these products, you may use these solutions below that I have gathered after helping to fix these same problems countless
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HijackThis – your first tool for remove homepage hijackers
HijackThis examines certain key areas of the Registry and Hard Drive and lists their contents. These are areas which are used by both legitimate programmers and hijackers. It’s up to you to decide what should be removed. Some items are perfectly fine. You should not remove them. Never remove everything. Doing that could leave you
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Browser Hijacking
There is a despicable trend that is becoming more and more common wherein the browser settings of web surfers are being hijacked forcibly by malicious web sites and software which modifies your default start and search pages. Sometimes internet shortcuts will be added to your favorites folder without asking you. The purpose of this is
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How to remove CWS Hijacker
This is old news, but and now many peoples have a question: “How to remove CWS Hijacker from my pc ?“. Read below. CWS is a trojan that hijacks Internet Explorer start and search settings to one of several different web sites (see below). Most of these web sites appear to have an affiliate relationship
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IE flaw lets intruders into Google Desktop
A security researcher in Israel has found a way to steal information from unwitting users of Google’s desktop search tool by exploiting an unpatched flaw in Microsoft’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer. There is a bug in the way the Web browser processes CSS rules, Matan Gillon wrote in a description of his hack posted on Wednesday.
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More exploits out for Windows flaws
Two new pieces of computer code that could be used in cyberattacks on Windows users were posted on the Web on Wednesday and Thursday. The exploit posted Thursday is another that could allow a remote attacker to gain complete control over a vulnerable computer. The code takes advantage of a flaw in a Windows component
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