Found new rogue antispyware – Titan Shield. Available at antispywarebox(dot)com (a new rogue site) and titanshield(dot)com If you can`t uninstall or remove, ask about help: Spyware Removal Forum
Found new fake codec – nvidcodec. The codec is malicious programecs that deliver popup advertisements and hijack search engine results. Some AV vendors detected the codec as Trojan.Downloader.Zlob
Sunbeltblog reported about new adware – pornmagpass. There’s a new adware detected some AV engines as trojan: AVG – Downloader.Zlob.AOI ClamAV – Trojan.Downloader.Zlob-471 EtrustVet – Win32/Beovens.FT Fortinet – suspicious Ikarus – Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob.ni The EULA says: SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: Components bundled with our software may report to Licensor and/or its affiliates the installation status of certain marketing
Need2Find is an adware promoted by Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves distributes a variety of programs that offer users some trinket of apparent value (e.g. smileys for email programs) while also adding an extra toolbar to users’ web browsers. Ask Jeeves promotes these programs in ways that do not entail meaningful user consent.
Kaspersky Lab have reported, first a macro virus – Virus.StarOffice.Stardust.a for StarOffice and OpenOffice has been found. Stardust is a macro virus written for StarOffice. Macro viruses usually infect MS Office applications. It’s written in Star Basic. It downloads an image file (with adult content) from the Internet and then opens this file in a
Some time ago we`ve reported about the adware: YapBrowser, potentially dangerous application that pre-installs 180Solutions Zango and does nothing but apparently redirect you to a porn site. Read more: YapBrowser and Yapsearch(dot)com now yapbrowser site back online. The website claims: YapBrowser is a browser which will make searching for any information online much simpler. Download
Internet Storm Center have received samples of an e-mail which is being actively spammed at the moment. The e-mail purports to be from Microsoft and it is notifying the recipient of “a new vulnerability [that] has been discovered in the Microsoft WinLogon Service”. It further states that the vulnerability can allow an attacker access to
The new mass mailing worm called Banwarum (also known as Zasran and Ranchneg) that is using World Cup themed email messages. The worm sends itself as a password protected archive and includes in the email the password for it. The emails sent by the worm are in German and some of them offer tickets for
A worm that installs a ‘Safety Browser’ and plays screeching music is circulating via IM. The annoyance starts with a link apparently sent by a friend in Yahoo’s IM program. IM security company FaceTime Communications described the malware, which it calls “yhoo32.explr”, The malware infects the PC with two elements. The first element is a
Spyware Sheriff is an rogue antispyware application that uses Trojans and other malware into tricking or scaring you into purchasing it. If you are infected with this malware, your Internet Explorer home page will be reset to about:blank and display a fake Windows Security Center alert stating that you are possibly infected. When you click
