Archive for February, 2007
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January’s Storm Worm targets blogs!
Back in January we blogged about the Small.DAM Trojan which affected users at the time Europe was raged with terrible weather conditions. This week it has emerged the Trojan has stepped up a gear according to ZDNet: "Storm Worm emerged in January
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Some site changes…
There are some visible changes with our home page as you may have noticed. And during this current week we have chopped and changed and knowing myself, fiddled around with the coding somewhat. If you are having any glitches of any sort please let
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Julie Amero sentencing postponed!
At least it is good new: Norwich Bulletin report: "The former Norwich substitute teacher convicted of exposing her seventh-grade students to Internet porn is getting extra time to bolster her defense team. Superior Court Judge Hillary Strackbe
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Julie Amero: read the full trial transcript
"The jury believed that, no matter how pornography got on a school computer, substitute teacher Julie Amero didn't do enough to protect students from it. The full trial transcript is available below in the Amero special section." A load of c
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FireFox Update to version 2.0.0.2
Update time again for Firefox users. They have released version 2.0.0.2 to which I got a suprise. Java version 6 came up as a none compatible add-on! (checked and seems to be working fine!) What the new things are in this version: Security Upd
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Articles of Interest! (22-02-2007)
It's true. Things are drying out. Have we won the war? Doubt it! Is it all going to kick of? You bet! But in the meantime I have gathered some articles of interest mainly because I'm too lazy to even make an article right now and rather busy with oth
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Winfixer, Errorsafe and MSN Messenger Ads
What do these have in relation? A big thing that is what! Go check out Spyware Sucks by Sandi Hardmeier right about now for details about WinFixer and Messenger Ads relation with each other. .... Oh and Patchou, creator of MSN Plus, gets a ment
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Security Cadets Live (Support Chat) Opens
And with that you get a big ice-cream, from me! Because I can! We now have a support chat open for anyone to log on and post anything to us that is related to malware. Why have we made this move? Simple really. To reach out to those who cannot
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Experiencing problems with the Forum?
.... Then let us know! This last week has been crazy for me and for us. I have been all over the place with new ideas for this place, blogging about rogues and all this whilst our site had some downtime a few days ago. This of course meant thin
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Spammers taking the wrong turn!
Not so long ago I blogged about a spammer that happend to spam about a good program we use in the fight against malware. Well now this spammer has taken a step in the wrong direction. The direction taken by the spammer was to change his or her nam
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New rogue – SpyDawn
I got this from reading the changlog of a very good tool that helps removes these rogues. One we use in our forum. Not long after SpyCrush the makers of these rogues have released a clone version once more called SpyDawn. (Click on the image t
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Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February
Oh yay it is that time of the month again! This time there are about 12 updates released for circa 20 holes. I tend to miss these on the front page as you can just directly naviagte to our Updates forum. However with so many patches, I felt this one
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WinPatrol 2007 gets a thumbsup!
Oh yes. This neat little program will celebrate it's 10th year this year and now has a new version. "I’m pleased to announce the release of another new and improved WinPatrol. This year WinPatrol will celebrate its 10th anniversary of hel
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SpyCrush – Another rogue to avoid!
Yup, another one to add to the fast growing list. Originally, as you will see in the setup image, a clone of VirusBurst(er) which you can see here and here. And the program in looks is no to different from VirusBurst either. (click on the
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Public computers at the RSA pwned!
This is amusing to a point. Check out how Sunbelts president Alex Eckelberry plays with a public system at this years RSA conference. By downloading Zango and more kinds of stuff! Read about it here. Or discuss it here.
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So will you be upgrading to Vista? – Poll Results!
If you remember last week we asked you if you would update to the new Vista. We gave you a few options: Yes No Maybe Not for at least 12 months Other answer I can honestly say the response we got from the poll was great. Thank you. 89
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Scammers, Baiters and Victims
Everyone who reads my stories and knows my site, knows how I love to take out the garbage. And by gargage, I don't mean my empty milkboxes and leftovers, but the real garbage like this, this and even this. Besides running around, getting on the b
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Trojans play the Super Bowl!
The official site of Dolphin Stadium - which is the host of this years Super Bowl - got infected with a nasty trojan. Websense said the site still hosts the virus, and it advises people to steer clear of the site for now. The Trojan tries to use two
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Talk to your God!
Yeah anyway, seeing as everyone has this meebo widget loaded I thought I would check it out as well. And also considering everyone is blogging about Vista. To which I don't know two cents about right now. What's the point? You can always keep upda
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