SECOND ROGUE FACEBOOK APP BEWILDERS USERS

Poisoned mushrooms and spam

Scoundrels have created another rogue Facebook application, the second to hit the social networking site in less than a week.

In the second attack, Facebook users receive notices that they have supposedly being reported for violation of the social networking site’s terms of service by someone in their friends list. A link on the notification leads to an application called “f a c e b o o k – - closing down!!!” which, post installation, spams all the affected user’s friends with the same message.

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Spyware Fighter

Spyware Fighter is another fake anti-spyware program in an overcrowded scam market that’s fighting to con you out of your money.

You certainly will feel like fighting when Spyware Fighter generates it’s countless fake security alerts for threats that aren’t even on your computer to try and trick you into buying the “full” version of Spyware Fighter .

Even if you make the mistake of buying Spyware Fighter, it will still generate fake security alerts and slow your computer down to a point where you will want to punch your computer.

There are no manual removal instructions yet for Spyware Fighter so for now now use Spyware Doctor to remove Spyware Fighter and the Trojan that put it on your computer. Also be sure to delete any folder on your computer called Spyware Fighter.

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Virus Remover 2009

Virus Remover 2009 is another fake antivirus program with a boring name that wants to trick you out of your money.

If you think that Virus Remover 2009 is actually going to remove any viruses then think again. The only thing that gets removed is your sanity as you see countless fake alerts for threats that aren’t even on your computer to try and trick you into buying the “full” version of Virus Remover 2009. It’s interesting that Virus Remover 2009 doesn’t detect the Trojan that put it on your computer in the first place

Unfortunately their aren’t any instructions to manually remove Virus Remover 2009 yet. Your best bet is to find and delete any folder named “Virus Remover 2009″ however that wont completely remove the infection. For now, only running a program like Spyware Doctor will completely remove Virus Remover 2009 from your computer.

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Excel Trojan targets unpatched flaws

Another day, another zero-day threat

Virus authors have reportedly created a Trojan that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in a range of versions of Excel.

Virus authors have reportedly created a Trojan that exploits an unpatched vulnerability in a range of versions of Excel.

The malware comes in the form of a maliciously constructed spreadsheet file with a malicious payload identified by McAfee, for example, as the BackDoor-DUE trojan. Many versions of Excel are vulnerable, including 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, 2004/2008 for Mac, Excel Viewer/Excel Viewer 2003.

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GMAIL PHISHING ATTACK HITS ON HEELS OF OUTAGE

Oh the humanity

Gmail users, still swooning from the extended outage on Tuesday, were hit with a widespread phishing attack hours after the blackout.

The malicious message spread via the Google Talk instant messaging chat system, urging users to a video by clicking on a link connected via the TinyURL service. The link points to a website called ViddyHo, which invited users to submit their Gmail usernames and passwords.

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WHAT ARE THE SECURITY THREATS?

Sophisticated Malware or just People?

“Security”, as the first article in this series points out, can always be found near the top of the list of concerns of every IT manager and IT director. Unfortunately the same subject can also manage to not quite make it onto the more important list of things to do something about now.

Over the years, a diverse array of solutions has come to market, each of which claims to enhance different aspects of an organisation’s IT security. Many can, indeed, enhance the capabilities in one or more areas. But security technology is only effective when deployed appropriately and, more importantly, when used correctly – by everyone in the business. And of course, security is not a one-shot operation – it cannot be assumed that the measures put in place a couple of years ago will still be appropriate today.

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WHAT’S IN A (FILE) NAME?

The following is an article from Bill Mullins’ Weblog – Tech Thoughts

One of Bill’s security recommendations (among the many that he tries to pound into the heads of his readers), is to disable the hiding of file extensions for known file types.

In this, my second article on Bill’s Blog, I will explain why this is important and how it can protect you.

This can get a bit complicated for the novice user, so I’ll try to make it easy to understand.

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Google’s DoubleClick spreads malicious ads (again)

Lingering threat still not contained

Google’s DoubleClick ad network has once again been caught distributing malicious banner displays, this time on the home page of eWeek.

Unsuspecting end users who browse the Ziff Davis Enterprise Holdings-owned site were presented with malvertisements with invisible iframes that redirect them to attack websites, according to researchers at Websense. The redirects use one of two methods to infect users with malware, including rogue anti-virus software.

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ROGUE FACEBOOK APP CREATES MALIGN BUZZ

Sting in the tail

A Facebook application using misleading messages spread quickly over the weekend. The application itself did no harm beyond making a mess but may be part of an indirect attempt to attract surfers towards sites promoting scareware packages.

The application, Error Check System, posed as notification of errors in a Facebook user’s profile. Attempting to view these supposed errors allowed the application to activate. This, in turn, allowed the application to access to the affected user’s friends, who were then spammed with notifications, further spreading the social networking chain-letter.

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Threat Nuker

Merely removing Spyware is so last week, now days everyone want’s to nuke their infections. Sure it will take out everything around it but at least it will remove the infection, right?

Threat Nuker is a WMD fake antivirus program that tries to con you out of your money.

When Threat Nuker goes to work, you wont see a mushroom cloud on your monitor but you will see plenty of fake alerts for threats that aren’t even on your computer to try and trick you into buying the “full” version of Threat Nuker. The full version promises to nuke your non existent threats.

Why does this all sound so familiar….

Anyway Threat Nuker is a dud, even if you make the mistake of buying it, it will still generate fake security alerts and slow your computer down to a point where you will think that it’s suffering from radiation poisoning.

Luckily there are manual removal instructions to remove Threat Nuker. If it doesn’t work, there’s not need to duck and cover. Just use Spyware Doctor to remove Threat Nuker and decontaminate your computer from Trojans and other nasty things.

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