Rogue Antispyware

Remove Win7 AV, Win7 AV removal

Remove Win7 AV, Win7 AV removal

By Gina on September 2, 2010 Win7 AV is the latest rogue application promoted on win7av.com website. It should be avoided because the program is malicious and fraudulent as brower hijacker. Malware spreads via trojan which comes to the system through its flaws. Read more.

Remove AV Defender 2011 Platinum, AV Defender 2011 Platinum removal

By Gina on September 2, 2010 AV Defender 2011 Platinum is a rogue security tool. Malware also can be found in a different name, such as AVDefender 2011 . Once installed rogue program will perform a quick system scan and report fake malware infections on your computer. It may display fake security threats as well. Read more.

Computer Security

Hack is Wack: Symantec and Snoop Dogg teamed up to launch a cybercrime rap contest

Hack is Wack: Symantec and Snoop Dogg teamed up to launch a cybercrime rap contest

By Gina on September 2, 2010 Recently Symantec and well known rapper Snoop Dogg announced a new challenge that requires people’s creativity and love for music. What is common between those two grand names is that participants need to create a song on the subject of malware, botnets and other security-related problems. Read more.

Most safest and most dangerous countries to use the Internet

By Gina on August 25, 2010 AVG reported about viruses and malware that had spread through various countries. AVG researchers don’t claim their list of the safest and most dangerous countries to use Internet is very precise. It is known that malware and viruses don’t know boundaries and spread very quickly. Read more.

Phishing

Chinese scammers imitated legitimate ad companies

Chinese scammers imitated legitimate ad companies

By Gina on September 2, 2010 Recently Chinese scammers were caught for rogue advertising. They attempted to pretend to be legitimate media agencies. The culprits were using rogue advertisements for making users to believe in their legitimacy and force to spend their money or even to get personal information. Read more.

New Facebook fraud uses iPhone and iPad for bait

By Gina on August 31, 2010 It looks like a new scam circulating across the Facebook is not big news nowadays. Users are also saying that it happens all the time. It is because that Facebook is a notorious social network which has many users that contain personal data in it. Read more.

Malware

25% of worms use USB drives to spread

25% of worms use USB drives to spread

By Gina on August 30, 2010 According to Panda’s report, 25% of worm based malware spreads through the USB drives. Even more, most of viruses are designed to spread via USB drives. Security Company confirms that cybercriminals are very persistent and put a lot of efforts to make user’s life impossible. Read more.

Save your Androids: first trojan spotted in the wild

By Luciana on August 11, 2010 If there's the Android OS on your phone and your bills started to skyrocket, you may have the first Android trojan. The incredibly popular OS made by Google couldn't be left out by cyber criminals. What's the hype about and how can you avoid the mess? Read more.

Vulnerabilities

Adobe Reader PDF patches the flaw disclosed at Black Hat

Adobe Reader PDF patches the flaw disclosed at Black Hat

By Gina on August 20, 2010 As the hole in an Adobe’s Reader was disclosed at the conference of Black Hat security conference, Adobe patched the flaw at last. Today Adobe released security update to patch the hole. Read more.

iPhone OS is not bulletproof

By Gina on August 6, 2010 Developer known as “Comex” released a new jailbreak for Apple’s iPhone 4 earlier this week. By visiting an appropriate web page users are able to gain an access to the iPhone's file system, which is normally restricted, in an easier way. Read more.

Security basics

Common mistakes of being infected with malware

Common mistakes of being infected with malware

By Gina on August 19, 2010 Nowadays, when we live in a world full of great technologies there is also a huge risk to be a victim of cybercriminals. In this way the Internet becomes a perfect place for hackers to use people trust for their malicious intentions. Read more.

Can’t open EXE files? We have a solution

By Bryan on April 22, 2010 Modern computer infections are especially pesky as they annoy victims in every possible way. Frauds like Windows Security System 2010 , Win 7 Malware 2010 and XP Security Tool 2010 are able to set themselves to run instead of regular security tools. Read more.

Spam and email

Fake AV Spreads in a New Way

Fake AV Spreads in a New Way

By Gina on August 3, 2010 A new way for spreading malware was discovered. The fake antivirus creators and distributors are very inventive because last week was found some fake antivirus spreading via a fake Firefox/Flash Player update site according to Avira . Read more.

Google's Research on Spam

By Jason on April 16, 2010 Despite security researchers effort to make sure that spam disappears from its existence it seems like it is not working at all. According to Google's e-mail filtering division Postini, the volume of unsolicited email in the first quarter was around 6 percent higher than a year earlier. Read more.