Archive for the 'Spyware related issues' Category

The title might sound stupid and unreal, but it’s actually true. Julie Amero, a school teacher in U.S., is now facing up to 40 years in prison. She was accused and convicted of intentionally accessing porn web sites, leaving downloaded images on school computer and therefore exposing seventh-grade students to explicit pictures.
But what’s wrong with […]

Earlier this month, we wrote that Zango, the infamous adware company, has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a suit brought by the FTC alleging that the company used bad practices to install adware to millions of computers around the world without end user knowledge and consent.
It was very good news that experts and […]

Earlier this month, Zango, the infamous adware company, has agreed to pay $3 million dollars to settle a suit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Only one week passed, and FTC wins another battle. This time it’s even more impressive. It seems that Media Motor, the notorious spyware and adware distributor, finally gets […]

Zango, formerly 180solutions, the infamous adware company known for its adware and trackware programs like ZangoSearch and 180SearchAssistant, has agreed to pay three million dollars to settle a suit brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that company’s software was installed to millions of computers around the world without end user knowledge and consent. […]

Today, on September 26, Microsoft has issued a security update to patch a highly critical vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This fix has been released out of cycle, two weeks earlier than scheduled. It seems that discussions, lots of news and unofficial third-party patches altered Microsoft plans.
A flaw discovered on September 18 is utilized by an […]

There is one subject that most security experts are on now. It is VML exploit used to install loads of spyware, adware and viral parasites to vulnerable computers. As you already know, this exploit utilizes vulnerability in Internet Explorer, which is still unpatched. Workarounds and even third-party patches are available, but surprisingly a lot of […]

It seems that an exploit to unpatched Internet Explorer vulnerability is hosted on a “large number of sites” already. HostGator general manager Jason Muni says that hackers have hijacked multiple web sites at the hosting firm. They seek to put exploits on legit, but hacked pages, and thus infect visitor systems. Muni said HostGator checked […]

Microsoft, makers of the Internet Explorer web browser vulnerable to latest zero-day exploit, acknowledged the threat and published a security advisory explaining the risks and providing temporary workarounds until the patch targeting the VML vulnerability is not released.
Four tested workarounds are suggested. Each has own impacts. We recommend one that involves unregistering of the vgx.dll […]

A newly detected exploit is already being used to attack fully patched Windows systems. Any computer running the Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser is vulnerable, researchers at Sunbelt Software, makers of the CounterSpy spyware remover, state. According to them, the latest exploit utilizes a previously unknown flaw in Internet Explorer to run malicious code on […]

In April, 2006, we wrote about fake codecs for Windows Media Player. Emcodec and Vcodec, purportedly useful applications, were actually malicious trojans designed to trick people into infecting their systems with widely spread parasites like SpywareQuake or SpyFalcon.
The today’s list of prevalent malware does not end with Spy Falcon. There are other nasty infections like […]