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How to remove WinFixer

Myantispyware team December 6, 2005 1 Comment Rogue Anti Spyware, Tutorials - HowTo

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

Myantispyware team December 6, 2005 No Comment Exploits & Vulnerabilities, Worms

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”

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

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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Browser Hijacking

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment 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

Myantispyware team December 5, 2005 No Comment Browser Hijacking, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

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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Ewido security suite 3.5 – Complement your existing protection system today

Myantispyware team November 27, 2005 2 Comments Malware removal, Trojan, Virus

Ewido anti-spyware 4.0 will now continue under the new product name AVG Internet Security. AVG Internet Security is comprehensive real-time protection against all Internet threats. AVG Internet Security offer you realtime protection against these threats. Hijackers and Spyware. Secure surfing in the Internet without fear of annoying changes of the start page of your browser,

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How to detect keylogger on my computer ?

Myantispyware team November 26, 2005 1 Comment FAQ, Free Software, Identity Theft, Tips, Tutorials - HowTo

Why Keyloggers Threaten Your Privacy 1. Surveillance software is very common nowadays. A Google search on keyloggers yields 39,000+ results. 2. Software mentioned in (1) has a bunch of features to record your activity in every possible way. See some features here. 3. Due to their “good purpose”, keyloggers and other types of surveillance software

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How to Remove Trojan Vundo / Winfixer / Virtumonde?

Myantispyware team November 26, 2005 No Comment Trojan, Tutorials - HowTo

VirtuMonde is an adware program that downloads and displays popup advertisements. It may also hijack the browser to unwanted advertising related sites. There is a free removal tool offered by Symantec here: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/trojan.vundo.removal.tool.html Follow the removal directions on the download page. Run the tool twice with a reboot inbetween to be sure it got everything.

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New Version of MYTOB is causing an escalation of Risk Alert

Myantispyware team November 24, 2005 No Comment Worms

We just received notification that Trend Micro has raised the Alert for the new MYTOB virus to medium. Trend Micro has an excellent write up at: Mytob.MX The worm appears to be memory resident and spreads by sending a copy of itself as an attachment (account-password.zip) in an email message using its own Simple Mail

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CounterSpy Protects Against New Spyware Keylogger

Myantispyware team November 24, 2005 No Comment Identity Theft, Malware removal

The spyware keylogger, named Srv.SSA-KeyLogger, secretly steals data from users’ Internet sessions, including logins and passwords from online banking sessions, eBay, PayPal, and other programs that use html forms to collect personal information. It is a new variant of existing Trojans known by a variety of names, including Troj/Dumaru-BD, Troj/Dumaru-ALTroj/Dumaru-BO, BackDoor-CCT.gen, and Backdoor.Nibu.L. Note that

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