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The High Price of Things that are Free

2007-08-01 19:26:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...infect our systems with. Adware and spyware are programs that are unwittingly installed into our computers because they come bundled with some freeware and shareware programs that are downloadable from the Internet. Computer and Internet users are usually careful about installing suspicious programs that may contain viruses and worms that can...
 
Tags: free, adware protection, adware, free items, secure free spyware, adware protection programs, free programs, spyware, spyware programs
 
 
 
 
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Covert Online Spies

2007-08-01 19:20:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...infected with unwanted adware and spyware downloads can be very serious. Some adware and spyware or malware proliferate the Web to infect our computer systems which gives us no control over unsolicited pop ups as part of targeted market efforts On extreme criminal cases however, spyware called malware, is used to take note of keystrokes,...
 
Tags: anti spyware program, anti spyware, free anti spyware, proper anti spyware, anti spyware system, spyware, spyware downloads, spyware programs, anti-spyware system
 
 
 
 
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Skype Spamming Tool in the Wild

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2008-04-07 10:51:23 by HASH0x8ad7880 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infecting with malware upon visiting them There're, however, two perspectives we should distinguish as seperate attack tactics, each of which requires a different set of expertise to conduct, as well as different entry barries to bypass to reach the efficiency stage. If you find this DIY type of tool's efficiency disturbing in terms of the...
 
Tags: tool, mass authorization requests, malware, malware authors, proprietary tool, urls, botnet, novice botnet masters, infect
 
 
 
 
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Fake YouTube Site Serving Flash Exploits

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2008-06-12 07:12:58 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infect your system. Then, if your browser hasnt completely crashed at that point, you may ultimately get redirected to the real YouTube, displaying some idiotic video (he nce, possibly even helping to continue the infection, by having users forward the spam above Interesting mostly because it not just attempts to serve a online games...
 
Tags: site, fake youtube site, flash exploit loads, flash exploit, mdac, ubiquitous mdac exploit, exploit, malware, real youtube site
 
 
 
 
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Phishers Backdooring Phishing Pages to Scam One Another

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2008-08-07 15:01:50 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infected with a third-party malware. Realizing and definitely not enjoying the fact that the lowered entry barriers into cybercrime are empowering yesterday's script kiddies will malware kits that used to be utilized by a set of people who invested time and money into the process several years ago, this unethical competitive practice is only...
 
Tags: phishers, myspace phishers, campaign, myspace, rock phish campaign, free phish, free, kits, attack
 
 
 
 
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The reason behind the "We're sorry..." message

2007-07-09 11:54:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...infected computers or DSL routers that proxy search traffic through your network - this may be at home or even at a workplace where one or more computers might be infected. Overly aggressive SEO ranking tools may trigger this message, too. In other cases, we have seen self-propagating worms that use Google search to identify vulnerable web...
 
Tags: web servers, vulnerable web servers, message, google, worms, google displays, worms pdf, queries, detect anomalous queries
 
 
 
 
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Introducing Google's online security efforts

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2007-05-21 09:43:00 by A Googler in Google Online Security Blog
...infected with a whole variety of malware without any interaction on your part. Software installations that leverage exploits are termed "drive-by downloads". To protect Google's users from this threat, we started an anti- malware effort about a year ago. As a result, we can warn you in our search results if we know of a site to be harmful and...
 
Tags: activity, malware activity, web servers, servers, malware, anti- malware effort, malware distribution servers, sites, web sites
 
 
 
 
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Help us fill in the gaps!

2007-11-29 14:28:00 by Niels Provos in Google Online Security Blog
 
...infect people's computers with malware. Unfortunately, we also know that there are more malware sites out there. This is where we need your help in filling in the gaps. If you come across a site that is hosting malware, we now have an easy way for you to let us know about it. If you come across a site that is hosting malware, please fill out...
 
Tags: malware, distribute malware, malware sites, safe, avoid drive-by downloads, internet safe, site, google products, display warnings
 
 
 
 
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Pinch Variant Embedded Within RussianNews.ru

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2007-12-23 21:01:52 by HASH0x89b2224 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...infection vector mentality we've been witnessing on pretty much each and every related case of malware embedded sites during 2007. The URL at a popular news portal for Russian/Iranian related news at : russiannews.ru/arabic/data/news/upload/exp is serving a Pinch variant thought an MDAC ActiveX code execution exploit - CVE-2006-0003, the type...
 
Tags: variant, pinch variant, diy malware builders, russiannews, malware, popular news portal, web dropper, news, simple stupid strategy