Posted on April 30th, 2008 by
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Here is yet another example of LocusSoftware foisting their bogus products upon the public with the help of “ipsCA” … If you click the “Try free” button … my AV (NOD32 v3) jumps up with the following: (and kills the connection) However I am still able via Microsoft Fiddler to capture the traffic connections, including […]
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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by
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Landing on the following site the visitor is prompted with a bogus Media Player prompt … The image is designed to look like a real Windows Media Player … and as you can see IE7 blocked the automatic download of the file … then you see the fake prompt “You need to download new version […]
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Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by
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The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [April-22-2008]http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (154 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS filehttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File – Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm Note: the “text” version makes a great resource for determining possible culprits … (668 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt Sign up for HOSTS file update noticeshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/updates.htm
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Posted on April 16th, 2008 by
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Following up on a article from our friends at BleepingComputer “How to remove Malware Bell” we find: “Malware Bell is a rogue anti-spyware from the same developers as IE Defender and Files Secure. Malware Bell is installed and advertised through the use of Trojans that are installed as Internet Explorer Browser Helper Objects.” These people […]
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Posted on April 14th, 2008 by
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Landing on the following site … the typical layout of clickable images is displayed with the following message “Video is protected by unique technology PriveContent” … well that’s something new … Image edited for display purposes If you click the “Enable video now” you are redirected to a download that is detected as “Trojan.Fake.GoogleBar“or directly […]
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Posted on April 11th, 2008 by
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Following up on a post from Sandi who is reporting yet another malicious advertisement (.swf) that redirects several times until you land on one of many rogue Antispyware products from LocusSoftware … When you click the Download button you are routed to a “secure” page where you are prompted to purchase their (bogus) product … […]
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Posted on April 8th, 2008 by
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Donna’s SecurityFlash pointed out that there is quite a storm over the discovery that Comodo has licensed their firewall engine to PCSecurityShield … once considered promoting Rogue/Suspect Antispyware products … Seems PCSecurityShield has turned around their business model and are now rebranding several Security related products. This excerpt from Download.com (Company Profile) … “PCSecurityShield is a 3 […]
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Posted on April 5th, 2008 by
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Well … here we go again … MediaPost is reporting that Zango is again going after Kaspersky. Zango lost round 1 in court and they are not happy with the decision. In their latest filing (link to .pdf here) they state the Court was wrong and that Kaspersky is actually Badware (as defined in StopBadware.org) […]
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Posted on April 4th, 2008 by
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MediaPost is reporting that Vomba has acquired Whenu … Who is Vomba? they are a division of “Gamma Entertainment” Just so there is no confusion of “who-is-who” … and where they are located: Vomba Network 3300 Cote-Vertu, Suite 406 Montreal, QC H4R 2B7 WHENU.COM 3300 Cote-Vertu, Suite 406 Montreal, QC H4R 2B7 Surfing accuracy 3300 Cote-Vertu Suite 406 Montreal, Quebec H4R […]
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Posted on April 1st, 2008 by
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The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [April-01-2008]http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (154 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.zip How To: Download and Extract the HOSTS filehttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts2.htm HOSTS File – Frequently Asked Questionshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hostsfaq.htm Note: the “text” version makes a great resource for determining possible culprits … (670 kb)http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt Sign up for HOSTS file update noticeshttp://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/updates.htm
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