Archive for March, 2006

Today, one of our constant visitors has sent us a link to a message in the Dell Community Forum. The message was written by one of the Dell Community Forum members. It contained a description of the GiftCom parasite initially published on our web site. We see nothing bad in spreading the word on spyware […]

SpyFalcon, the infamous trojan continues to mutate. A new variant of this parasite has appeared recently. The threat works in exactly the same manner, but this time it creates a few different malicious files - dfrgsrv.exe and ginuerep.dll. They can be found in the default system folder, which is one of the following: C:\Windows\System, C:\Windows\System32, […]

The 2-Spyware.com research team has just started working on a guide with the working title Building a secure workstation. In this guide we want to explain how can secure, but not the most popular software help you to avoid spyware and virus infections. We have two scenarios – a regular home PC and a low-budget […]

Nowadays, not only personal computers and servers can be infected with viral parasites. Regular mobile phones are also vulnerable. A few days ago, Kaspersky Lab, Russian antivirus software company, has discovered the first trojan targeting mobile phones supporting J2ME (Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition).
The new parasite, identified as RedBrowser, works on the greater part of […]

News
SpywareStrike has got a clone
Olympic gold medalist looks to be a spyware pusher
Botnets, botmasters and spyware victims. You must read this
The rise of money stealing trojans
Incidents
hpHOSTS - untrustworthy resource
Infamous parasites
Top 100 parasites of 2005
The Blackworm’s aftermath
complete SpyFalcon manual removal instructions
Metafisher, a trojan
Winsysban, a trojan
Exploit.winamp.pls, malware

Vulnerabilities
Winamp vulnerability used to install spyware
Corrupt anti-spyware software
BPS Spyware & Adware […]