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We all have that one friend/relative/client who seems to get infected with some form of virus or malware every week and those of us who take on the task of cleaning up their PCs every time they do always tell the same joke: This wouldn’t happen if you’d stop visiting all those porn sites. But . . . → Read More: Religious sites are more dangerous than porn sites for getting malware. 
I got an email from an SEB regular about an email they got to check their PC to see if it’s infected that directed them to DCWG.org. She wanted to know if it was legit or a scam. I checked it out and wrote back and I thought the info would be useful for others . . . → Read More: ISPs and FBI warning about a nasty rootkit called Alureon. 
Luuuuucccyyy! You got some 'splanin' to do! Bought a Samsung computer recently? Might want to run a malware check on it as it appears they may be intentionally installing a keylogger on it without telling you. Security consultant Mohamed Hassan has written an article for Network World that explains how he discovered the software . . . → Read More: [UPDATED] Samsung appears to be installing keyloggers on new computers they sell. Meanwhile back in the Windows ‘verse all the anti-virus and system patches in the world won’t make a bit of difference if no one bothers to actually apply them to their systems. A new malware package known as Conficker has been making sudden gains on systems across the net taking advantage of a vulnerability in . . . → Read More: ArsTechnica ponders if it’s time for Microsoft to force critical updates. Just got off the phone with my Dad after trying to diagnose a possible virus on his computer. Every time he starts up Firefox it goes nuts saying there’s a virus incoming and to abort the connection. We set up a Remote Assistance so I could see what was going on and indeed every time . . . → Read More: Has Yahoo! been hacked? If you’ve never gotten around to changing the default password on your home Internet router, and there’s a lot of you who haven’t, then you should go change it right now. There’s a new trojan making the rounds that’s really bad news: A new Trojan horse masquerading as a video “codec” required to view content . . . → Read More: New malware trojan tries to change your router settings. Once it became clear that there was big money to be made in malware it was only a matter of time before it started getting really sophisticated and some of the worst of the worst are being developed in China: Virus from China the gift that keeps on giving – sfgate.com An insidious computer virus . . . → Read More: Chinese malware threat uses digital picture frames to hide. The folks over at ArsTechnica.com have a summary of IBM’s latest annual report on the state of security and malware threats which you should read: Annual IBM security report paints worrisome picture for 2008 – ArsTechnica.com IBM Internet Security System’s X-Force has released its annual report (PDF) on malware trends and statistics from last year. . . . → Read More: IBM Internet Security System’s X-Force annual report is out. |
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