Vista Antivirus Pro 2010 is a rename of rogue antivirus XP antivirus Pro 2010 that targets Vista users instead of XP ones. Typically, the parasite attacks out of nowhere : users start seeing various popups and alerts that their PC is infected or hackers try to attack the PC. Then a fake alert supposedly coming [...]

Security research firm Sophos has made another survey about how social networks are used in order to distribute malware infections. During last year, the number of companies attacked by spam through social networks rose by 70 per cent. The research shows that Facebook is considered to be the most dangerous place of all social networks. [...]

Stay clear of Total-scan.com website as it is one more malicious site promoting Security Tool rogue anti-spyware program. This fake application enters into your computer without your permission with a help of Trojan viruses. Once inside it displays fake security warnings, generates fake scanners and makes you believe your system is infected so that later [...]

Malware: TROJ_PIDIEF.SML

Malware: WORM_PALEVO.SMLF

Within days of Adobe’s release of out-of-band security updates for both Acrobat and Reader, word now comes from security researcher Aviv Raff, of another new vulnerability in an Adobe product.
The flaw was found in Adobe Download Manager (DLM), an application Adobe uses to deliver common applications (e.g., Flash and Reader) to users’ systems. Normally, it [...]

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New Adobe Download Manager Bug

TrendLabs Web content security analysts recently received spammed messages (see Figure 1) purporting to come from the Bank of Nevada. At first, the attack seems just like any other common phishing attack. However, users who are tricked into clicking the URL embedded in the spammed messages will be redirected to a fake Bank of Nevada [...]

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Phishers Hit the Bank of Nevada

A new Twitter worm is making the rounds. If you receive a direct message from a “friend” that contains the following message:
“This you????”
It is likely malicious. Clicking the link, http://twitter.login.{BLOCKED}home.org/login/, will redirect you to a sub page of the said domain. You will then be prompted to log in to your Twitter account.
Take a look [...]

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A New Twitter Worm Is Making the Rounds

Are you constantly being redirected to Antivirus-power.com website? Then you have to know some main information about it.
If you have already seen this website you probably know that it advertises Antivirus Live program. So let’s briefly talk about this application at first. Antivirus Live pretends to be an anti-spyware program but in reality it only [...]