Archive for the 'Spyware related issues' Category
|
If you have received a Skype message, asking something like 'Hey, is this your Skype profile pic?', you should ignore it and never click on a link, which is also included into the body of this message. According to our research center, it will lead you to a dangerous virus, Dorkbot worm, which is actively spread using this service at the moment. We have already seen other versions? of Dorkbot on Facebook and Twitter, so now it seems that it's Skype's turn.
Typically, this campaign is based on a message, which looks like it was sent by one of your friends but in reality is used to infect computer with Dorkbot worm and include the machine into the botnet. Every PC user? can also be included into the distribution of this worm against his/hers will if computer is infected with this threat. As a result, all victim's Skype friends will keep receiving 'Hey, is this your Skype profile pic?' message.
Here is how this? misleading message looks like:
lol is this your new profile pic?
http://goo.gl/[REDACTED]?img=[USERNAME]
Clicking on the misleadingly named link downloads a ZIP file, which contains More...
Posted in
News, Spam and phishing, Spyware related issues, Viruses and parasites |
No Comments
|
|
Rogue security tools seem to be the most popular way to fool people and get their money, but the situation might change quite soon. Apparently malware creators noticed a glitch in most of corrupt anti-spyware. Although fake security tools are pretty convincing and people believe they are useful, most of customers decide not to pay for a license. People can More...
Posted in
Articles, News, Security, Spyware related issues, What's new |
1 Comment
|
|
|
We could hope for more secure days of the internet to come, if only security researches forecasted anything positive. Unfortunately, when it comes to safety of the World Wide Web, each computer user is as vulnerable as a fly on spiders net.
ScanSafe Global Threat research reported malware rates were 278 percent higher first half of 2008 in comparison to last More...
Posted in
General, News, Spyware related issues, Viruses and parasites |
No Comments
|
|
|
A new scheme was noticed running in wild targeting those that do money transfers online. Although online banks employ various security measures, they still can be tricked. New "Server Error Messages" scam combines spam, trojans, phishing and a lot of insolence to empty bank accounts of its victims.
It starts with phony email supposedly coming from Tax Court, Bank or another official institution. Usually these emails are recognized as spam, but More...
Posted in
News, Spam and phishing, Spyware related issues, What's new |
1 Comment
|
|
You have been there before: you got extremely interesting file that requires some kind of special player to see what's inside. Why don't you download and install the needed software? Unfortunately, both the file and the player are snare to make you voluntarily install adware. Worms, trojans and adware used to use fake video codecs to infect computers; apparently people More...
Posted in
News, Spyware related issues, What's new |
No Comments
|
|
|
The damage done by zombie networks grows by days, yet botnets are not easy to stop or even to detect. Fortunately, creators of legitimate software keep in pace with malware factories and designs tools for eliminating botnets. A new tool by Microsoft was tested by Canadian police to detect and arrest major cyber criminals. Although details about this new tool More...
Posted in
News, Spyware related issues, What's new |
No Comments
|
|
Spreading the knowledge:
It is very hard to fight Computer parasites alone in internet space. If you have a website we would be more than happy if you would help us to spread the knowledge about latest threats. You can help your
visitors to manage their Computer system manually without aditional expences. Knowledge is the power, we just need to spread it.
|
|
Like us on Facebook
Latest spyware news:
Subscribe to spyware news
Ask us
Encyclopedia of parasites:
Library of files:
Tags:
Your main spyware remover is:
|