Archive for January, 2006
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180 Solutions vs ZoneAlarm. The story continues…
A few light years ago 180 Solutions filed a lawsuit against ZoneAlarm. But without going into great detail it seems the lawsuit has been dropped, according to Sunbelt. “Although the new labeling is still in our view overly aggressive, the imm
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Rogue anti-spyware vendor Secure Computer sued by Microsoft and Washington AG
Remember the adverts on Photobucket. The Spyware Cleaner? That I covered here, here, and here!!! Well read this By Suzi Turner. Rogue anti-spyware vendor Secure Computer sued by Microsoft and Washington AG by ZDNet's Suzi Turner -- Lawsuits were
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Security-Cadets goes blog crazy.
If you're a visitor of Secuity-Cadets you may have noticed the links to Googles Adsense or Blogwise and more. Well today I am happy to add Technorati. This is not just a link but a search feature too. So what is it? Well it is a feature that will
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Google go BadWare crazy…
...by funding a new anti-spyware coalition that is on tap to launch on Jan. 25. According to eWeek Google has joined up with Sun Microsystems. This in effect creates a place for users to go and tell and explain what dodgy pop up or what lame install
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Photobucket Update 3…..Yeah. I said 3!
Well after my previous post about photobucket I went back today to check. And within a minute or so I got the same advert I first reported on twice in a row when refreshing the page. The Spyware Cleaner one......Remember??? Thought so! To add to t
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Google Google Google and their Data.
Not suprising really. The internet search engine Google is resisting efforts by the US Department of Justice to force it to hand over data about what people are looking for. The department wants the data to try to show in court it has the right appr
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Photobucket Update 2…Hot of ze Press.
Apologies for trying to sound like a german in the title. But this is some red hot news. Read my first two posts about Photobucket, Post 1 and Post 2. Look at the pictures carefully. THEN read this. "Dear Andrew, Thank you for your concern. We
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Monthly Stats.
Technically this blog has been up for a month and two days. But who cares. I pride myself on stats. Because stats show how well things perform. Traffic Summary: Total Visitors: 571 Total Hits: 501This is from the 16th of December 2005 'till to
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Photobucket Update 1…Why 1? Because I fear more will follow.
Ok. Picture this. You use a well known place to host your pictures. You are not so handy on a computer and you accidentally click on an advert. Nine times out of ten the advert will be for a car. Screensavers or for a toolbar. Well after discovering
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If you use Photobucket. Be carefull of the adverts…
When uploading a picture to photobucket I noticed a nice advertisement saying that I may be infected. The useually ones. I knew straight away what this would lead to. To a rogue anti-malware application going by the name Spyware Cleaner. Looking a
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Free games are never what they seem to be.
Reading over at SpywareGuide about free games. And what bundles come with it. The game in question is the Snack Man game. In theory it is a game that gets used by many people. But it is the people who develop free games that usually bundle software w
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Just an objective to why it is so important to patch up your operated system.
Looking at Sunbelts blog today I read a very good post. Basically given their objective to why it is so important to patch up your system. With so many exploits going on around us. Many groups out there will do anything to get onto your system to get
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How two minutes of a phone call took 40 US dollars from an account.
First of all let me mention Integretel, FTC and the BBB. Mind boggling huh? I bet you are thinking why this has anthing to do with the title? Well let me explain. This may not come as a suprise to many of you, but many people may have heard of the t
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Update – SpywareStrike.
A fix for the latest version of SpyAxe aka SpywareStrike has now been created and uploaded. It is the same fix as before. But experts have been busy updating it to suit the new exploit. If you have been affected by this malware then please submit
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SpywareStrike or should we say SpyAxe.
IMPORTANT NEWS - Today a new variant of SpyAxe spwned across the web. It is the same as SpyAxe but called SpywareStrike. The same company we believe. But slightly different as the current SpyAxe fix will not work on this. Noahdfear the creator of the
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WMF – Microsoft release the patch early!
Well as many more blogs will be reporting. Microsoft have released the WMF exploit patch early. A full 5 days early than expected. Just to quote: "Microsoft originally planned to release the update on Tuesday, January 10, 2006 as part of its regu
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2006 Bloggies.
Ok. I can already hear your brains ticking into over drive. I got this from Paperghost. As many of you may know. His blog is in CNETs top 100 blog. As for this blog. It is lucky to even get a mention on several support sites, let alone a top 100.
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WMF Update – Microsoft will patch it on Jan the 10th.
Thanks to Sunbelt I can tell you that Microsoft will release a patch for this exploit soon. According to Microsoft they have completed development of the security update for the vulnerability. The security update is now being localized and tested to
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WMF Exploit Information.
Well I cannot go away for one week and already we have a big problem on our hands. As you may have already found out there is a vulnerability that has been discovered in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling o
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Security-Cadets makes it onto Google.
That is right we have made it onto Google. I applied to be added just before christmas. And today I checked it out and we are there. This is a big step for us, as our blog is now available to more users out there. Which means we can advise more peopl
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