One of the most prevalent families of recent Trojans is called fake alerts. These Trojans generate fake warning screens that look like they were generated by legitimate security or anti-malware software. The majority of malware within this family attempts to con users by convincing them that their systems are at risk and that they should purchase Read more…
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One of the features included with Google’s new Chrome web browser is the ability to show suggestions for navigation errors. This feature is intended to replace certain traditional 404 error messages with the additional option to search Google’s web search engine for phrases that are parsed out of the incorrectly entered web address that returned Read more…
Commonly in conversation with family or friends I am asked questions that begin with statements such as “Well, I had this computer virus”¦” Further into these conversations after asking some additional questions of my own, I become more convinced that the person believes they had a virus. From the descriptions provided I am often inclined Read more…
Late last Friday, Avert Labs became aware of an interesting piece of malware. In this latest social engineering scenario an attacker sends a new “friend request” to MySpace users. When the user clicks on the picture or name of their new potential friend, an overlaid image of what looks like a legitimate Windows “Automatic Update” Read more…
Many websites utilize a challenge-response mechanism know as CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to protect against automating the creation of user accounts, content, or otherwise abusing services they provide. Most common CAPTCHA systems work by generating distorted characters, text, or pictures that can be easily recognized by the Read more…
The other day I learned that apparently Vergon had done a “hack my command” on me!!! I found this trojan interesting in that it plays an mp3 for you to listen to as it goes about its havoc wreaking on your machine. The file itself has an icon visually similar to that of the default Read more…
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