As part of its regular “Patch Tuesday” cycle, Microsoft has released a number of fixes for a number of its widely deployed products to patch critical security vulnerabilities.
Eight of the critical patches, addressing vulnerabilities in Windows, Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Silverlight, SQL Server, Forefront, Visual Studio, and other products, aim to stop hackers dead in [...]
- Magania trojan Sets the drive to autoplay by creating autorun.inf file in its root directory. If the drive is shared across the network then other remote computers can be infected any time they try to access this share.
- Downloads/requests other files from Internet.
- Creates a startup registry entry.
Severity Level : 9/10
Alias:
Mal/EncPk-JS [Sophos]
Trojan-GameThief.Win32.Magania.???? [Kaspersky [...]
Today we’ve added another tool to our spam fighting toolbox that will give users the ability to flag bad accounts on Twitter.
Folks can now help us conquer spam by calling our attention to a profile they find questionable. Click the “Report as spam” button under the Actions section of a profile’s sidebar and our [...]
URL shorteners may be handy for your tweets on Twitter. But they’re also known security holes since they don’t display the actual address of your destination. A free tool from security vendor AVG may provide a solution.
AVG has updated its free LinkScanner tool to detect malicious pages hiding behind shortened URLs. The company said [...]
Smart Antivirus 2009 is a new member of the family of the “Fake Anti-Virus” (Rogue) detected a few days ago going through the network and already we are reporting the first cases. It’s the new twin cousin Antivirus 2009 and Antivirus 2008 and Antivirus XP series
Smart Antivirus 2009 can also emulate a fake system scan [...]
Antivirus 2009, like its predecessors, it settles into PCs through trojans (such as Zlob or Vundo) often in the form of video codec. Once possession of the computer the malware begins to open windows with warnings of dangers of infection varied, of course false, and with the goal of convincing the user to be seriously [...]
What is Green AV?
Green AV is a malicious application that infects your computer with viruses and parasites. It is very important to eliminate as Green AV is detected.
Green AV may access your computer when you visit Web sites that install malicious and with the help of Trojan viruses. Normally discharges into the system without the [...]
The virus can spread easily on your computer and cause varying degrees of discomfort and damage, sometimes even ruin your computer. To avoid such damage, you need powerful protection against viruses and other threats to your data and other valuable information. One of the best ways to defend against viruses is to have good, stable, [...]
Alpha Antivirus malware, which is also called AlphaAntivirus is classified as an application rogue anti-spyware, because it uses deceptive methods to scare you so that you buy this program. Usually, the scammer Alpha Antivirus malware uses false scan results and false security warnings. This says that your computer is infected by Trojans, of adware or [...]
Alert surfers: Facebook network, the victim of a computer virus
The wider social network, Internet, Facebook, which has more than 120 million people worldwide and has experienced tremendous growth in Argentina in recent months, is being affected by a computer virus that could endanger all users.
This was stated in computer security company McAfee, which he named [...]
