More security news. There is another round of Scareware/Trojans going around that trick users into infecting their machines http://bit.ly/zqaBJK and then ransoming a fix for money. This new threat, named "Trojan.HiddenFilesFraud.A" by Bitdefender’s researchers, hides all files and folders on your machine and disables some standard keyboard shortcuts so you can’t un-hide them. To further [...]
The Mac Trojan/Malware ‘MacDefender’ now calls itself ‘Mac Shield’. The malware keeps changing names and looks but still is relatively the same as before. However it is still infecting loads of machines and is, in my opinion very dangerous; it lures users into providing sensitive financial information to thieves. Sophos for Mac will remove it. [...]
Users are being ‘Tricked’ into infecting themselves with trojans/virus’ This has been used on probably 1.5 million websites! And it is increasing! UPDATE! Here is even more evidence that this is HUGE! I have written about this type of attack before and how to avoid it and stop the ‘infection’. Please Read Here on that [...]
Two very recent article point out what most security people know and the rest should know – NO technology, especially computers connected to any network, are completely secure! An article here points this out: "It appears there is a new backdoor Trojan in town and it targets users of Mac OS X. As even the malware [...]
Hi folks just thought I’d pass this on. The folks at Shadow Server have found this propagating. There are loads of new security threats – many using tried and true vectors. This one uses the ‘E-Card’ email route. One that STILL somehow get people! Please NEVER, EVER, EVER open up these type of links! They [...]
I’ve written about this tactic before – using ‘rogue/fake’ threat or infection warnings to distribute REAL malware. This is one very effective way to get unsuspecting or untrained people to accidentally actually ‘infect’ themselves. It now appears that a legitimate (using that word lightly now) company – CheckPoint, makers of ZoneAlarm is using the same [...]
I am not a fan of McAfee security and AV products and haven’t been for years. Their software has become a huge drain on system resources and worse, seems to get more false positives than actually stoping malicious software. I highly recommend Microsoft Security Essentials. But if you are one of those that have had [...]
I have mentioned many times before of the need to update your computer Operating Systems, Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware applications. But I also must mention again to please update your applications as well – ESPECIALLY ADOBE PRODUCTS. A 2009 Global Threat Report from ScanSafe, a Cisco company, shows that in the 4th quarter of 2009 80% of [...]
Folks, I can’t stress enough the importance of keeping your Operating system patched, up to date and running the latest versions of available applications – especially web browsers! Several new threats are emerging that are taking advantage of the fact the people are running outdated and un-patched software. Some of the latest hacks have involved un-patched [...]
Here are the results of a very well done study on the effectiveness of current anti-virus/anti-spyware suites.Review of the review here.The top of the current list is Nortons latest suite.They did not test Microsoft’s new/updated foray into this arena - their Freeware solution;Microsof Security Essentials.As I have mentioned previously I have been a fan of Norton [...]