http://www.jahne.com Jahne helps you clean you computer. Protect yourself from virus, trojans and spyware. Spyware blockers, Anti Virus Protection Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:00:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The LinkedIn professional networking site connects more than 30 million users from across many different industries. The advantages of maintaining a list of trusted business contacts for career planning purposes is not lost on LinkedIn’s users. The fostering of business relationships is further enhanced by features such as LinkedIn Answers and access ... http://www.jahne.com/information-and-removal/bogus-linkedin-profiles-harbor-malicious-content/ Neither. Or both. It depends on whether you think it is authentic or fake. Twitter users are facing yet another attack, this time a phishing threat. A spamming operation previously flooded users of the social networking and micro-blogging site with follower notifications which led to spammy and bogus profiles. Cyber criminals are ... http://www.jahne.com/information-and-removal/so-is-it-twitter-or-facebook-2/   http://www.jahne.com/new-virus-alerts/ca-security-advisor/win32confickerb/ http://www.jahne.com/information-and-removal/so-is-it-twitter-or-facebook/   http://www.jahne.com/new-virus-alerts/ca-security-advisor/win32fakealert-family/ PRO Antispyware 2009 is a new rogue anti-spyware program, a fake spyware remover, which uses scare tactics to trick the user into purchasing it’s "licensed version". This parasite typically enters the system by using trojans, such as Zlob or Vundo, but can also be manually downloaded and installed. Once inside and ... http://www.jahne.com/information-and-removal/pro-antispyware-2009-threat-information-and-removal-2/ A standalone malicious program which uses computer or network resources to make complete copies of itself. May include code or other malware to damage both the system and the network. http://www.jahne.com/new-virus-alerts/f-secure/wormw32downadupal/ Class reunion invitations (supposedly from classmates.com) are being seen in  spam recently — recipients of these messages are asked to click on a link found in the message to get the details of the “reunion” and also see a related video. Looking at the IP origins of sample spam messages, it ... http://www.jahne.com/information-and-removal/%e2%80%98classmates-reunion%e2%80%99-used-as-malware-ploy/ Total Protect 2009 is a rogue anti-spyware application, fake spyware remover. This rogue can be installed via trojans. They  use system security holes to gain access into user’s PC. Also TotalProtect 2009 can be installed manually  from website that promotes this parasite. If PC runs slowly and the internet connectivity ... http://www.jahne.com/information-and-removal/total-protect-2009-threat-information-and-removal/ i'm not going to bother pointing to all the many good stories out there describing the details of how a valid ssl certificate was faked by mounting a 2nd preimage attack on the MD5 hash using a legitimately purchased certificate as the starting point...i'm just going to point out that, ... http://www.jahne.com/information-and-removal/the-md5rogue-certificate-attack/