Archive for July, 2007
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“Zango Practices Violating Zango’s Recent Settlement with the FTC”
.... according to Ben Edelman. Yes, it's Zango time again folks! I'll take a back seat in this one and post a quote for you to ponder on. Just go and read the full story! "In my hands-on testing, Zango continues numerous practices likely to confuse,
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Watch out for “double-v” web sites.
You may already know, but a new way of tricking computer users is about. Dubbed the "double-v trick". Our buddies over at Sunbelt reported this a few days ago: "A group affiliated with the infamous VxGame Trojan has registered a new site called
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SpyHunter the return leg … coming soon!
I hate to say this, but in a day or so I will be hopefully posting about SpyHunter and the affiliates again! We all know about their status and what they did after I started to kick up a fuss. Yes, they followed my advice and changed all their aff
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Major Counterfeit Software Bust
As reported by the FBI: "For Immediate Release DATE: July 23, 2007 INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION CONDUCTED JOINTLY BY FBI AND LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES IN PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA RESULTS IN MULTIPLE ARRESTS IN CHINA AND SEIZURES OF COUNTERF
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Microsoft Announces Enhanced Privacy Protections for Customers
Microsoft Announced an enhanced set of privacy principles for Live Search and online advertising data collection, use and protection. Microsoft's intention is to "implement new privacy features and practices as it continues to develop its online ser
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Opera Browser Update 9.22
Following the Mozilla Firefox browser update yesterday, Opera has released an update due to a vulnerability in BitTorrent header parsing which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. The vulnerability description from Secu
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Firefox 2.0.0.5 Update
Last week, a highly critical risk was reported, with proof of concept, involving registering a "firefoxurl://" URI (uniform resource identifier) handler on a computer with both IE and Firefox 2.0 (or later). This was described by Mozillazine as follo
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Lack of Blogging due to recent events!
Hey guys, I have to apologise for my lack of blogging and other bloggers. First we had some issues which meant for site downtime. Secondly I have been rather busy with other more important commitments. One of those being, helping our local comm
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Microsoft Malware Protection Center launches!
In May I reported about this Malware Protection Center which Microsoft have come up with. On time, it is finally out of beta and in full working mode. What are your opinions about this now it’s launched? Tell us here.
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Shameless Plug-in!
Well it had to be done in my opinion. Anyway from the events of last week we have set up a committee and a website. I coded it and I’ll hope to be heavily involved with it. Here you go - Burstwick United
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Back fighting the war!
Yes folks I'm back getting my hands dirty and fighting the war againts spyware! It will take me a few days at least to get on top of things. I'll also plan to have some exciting articles these coming few weeks. However just make sure you tune in t
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In the wild: VirusLocker & VirusProtectPro – New Rogues
Well after an eventful week I can start to get back into things and blog about a few new rogues kicking about. Stay tuned for articles about what has taken place here this last week. I'll also be on TV, which I will upload and blog about. ... Let'
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