As some of you may have noticed, this blog was not accessable for the last several days … let’s just say they had some issues that needed attention … hopefully everything has been addressed and sorry for any inconvience …
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Landing on the following site the visitor is presented with a totally bogus “Flash ActiveX Object Error” … Folks there is no such error … don’t fall for these scams … otherwise you’ll end up with what Kaspersky describes asTrojan-Downloader.Win32.FraudLoad.bgn … although not very well detected as yet – VirusTotal results here … As usual […]
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Landing on the following site … a bogus scan is shown and then guess what? … you’re infected (so they say!) …The only way you get infected is if you fall for this scam … As you can see from the “Information Bar” they try to automatically download a “.cab” file … then if you do […]
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The MVPS HOSTS file was recently updated [June-05-2008]http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm Download: hosts.zip (157 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 … (681 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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