Articles Archive for July 2009
Posted in Information and Removal on 31 July 2009
Smart Protector is a fraudulent anti-virus program, which imitates the legitimate Smart Protector Pro. Simulating to be a legal security application is one of deceiving methods used by Smart Protector and all this is done to gain a purchase. Trustful computer users are tricked into spending their money for this useless software which can neither [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 31 July 2009
Hotmail users need to be wary about a malicious spam run that specifically targets users of the said webmail.
Senior Security Analyst Rik Ferguson reports that spam messages arrive with text indicating that it has file attachments that are image files with the JPEG format. In truth however, the file names of attachments are actually [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 30 July 2009
securityreg.org is a browser hijacker that promotes rogue registry cleaner called Repair Registry 2008. It’s just another fake online anti-malware scanner that finds non-existing infections and displays fake computer threats. After the scan, securityreg.org displays fake security alert with the following text:
WARNING!!!
Harmful and malicious software detected
Online scanner detected programs that may compromise your privacy or [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 30 July 2009
Repair Registry 2008 is a rogue anti-spyware which poses to be one of Windows Utilities. This fake virus removal software has renewed its malicious actions and now uses new generations of adware. Though advertising software is new, the aim of fraudulent Repair Registry 2008 actions hasn’t changed and money is the most important thing for [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 30 July 2009
Spyware Cleaner 2009 is a fake security application which is widely promoted to be spyware and adware free. Many websites, for example softpedia.com, share-best.com or topsofts.com, offer downloading SpywareCleaner 2009 trial version without any payment. Also, it is highly recommended to purchase “full” version of this scareware for less that $20 in those vendors’ homepages.
After [...]
Posted in Information and Removal on 30 July 2009
Today Trend Micro researchers discovered a spoofed (fake) version of the popular Russian social networking site vkontakte.ru. Visitors of the spoofed site risk exposing their personal login credentials to a third party. Vkontakte.ru is roughly the Russian equivalent of Facebook and is very popular in Russian-speaking countries. According to the site itself it has more [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 29 July 2009
Trend Micro recently rehashed TrendWatch, its dedicated threat center, to keep users better informed and abreast of the latest threats! As with the website’s earlier launch last year, this year’s rehash aims to continue to make more intuitive information about all threats as accessible as possible to all our site visitors.
The site will continue to [...]
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Posted in Information and Removal on 29 July 2009
It’s not the second Tuesday of the month, but Microsoft has rushed out several patches for Internet Explorer. These are related to the zero-day exploit that was revealed earlier in the month; however it appears that the underlying vulnerability was not fixed; independent security researchers have discovered the underlying flaw and are ready to release [...]
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Posted in CA Security Advisor on 29 July 2009
This malware is detected by eTrust Antivirus solutions. Please see above for the relevant signature updates. This malware is being dissected by the CA Security Advisory Team - a detailed analysis will be available shortly.
