Archive for January, 2009
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Patchou (aka Cyril Paciullo) – Remember him?
If you're a regular reader of this blog and others you may remember Patchou, aka Cyril Paciullo. Who also happens to be the creator of Messenger Plus! Live. At one point Patchou was on his way to receiving the Microsoft MVP Award thingy. To which
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New Rogue Anti-Spyware: IE Security
A new rogue anti-spyware is making the rounds and it's a member of the IE Defender crew. IE Security (Click to Enlarge) Installed Message (Click to Enlarge) The last image is the window that automatically opens when IE Security is installe
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (25/01/2009)
It's that time again for the weekly round-up of news generated and pulled from all over the web by our NewsBot Centre. What's been occurring this week? Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup infections MoD probes virus security breach 'Extradition li
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WinPatrol One Day Only: 50% off WinPatrol Plus
Bill Pytlovany is offering a one-day only special of 50% off a WinPatrol Plus subscription. The clock started ticking about 8 hours ago so time is running out. As I post this, there is less than 16 hours left for this special deal. WinPatrol PLUS
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Goodnight Trojan Zlob?
... At least that is what researchers believe. According to several sources it now appears the zlob trojan, which was responsible for promoting and installing rogue anti-spyware applications, will be dumped and not developed further. A pretty bi
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Rogue Company’s Nutty CGI Building
I couldn't honestly think of a decent title, so apologies in advanced. Known rogue, AntiSpyware 2008/2009, like most rogues have their own website and within them their own contact pages. Most of the websites from the rogues I speak of these da
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Sunday NewsBot: Weekly Round Up (18/01/2009)
Weekly round-up with selective stories in security and technology from our NewBot in the last week: Windows 7 "now available to all" Yahoo names new chief executive Gaza crisis spills onto the web Steve Jobs a 'national treasure' Direct R
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Yahoo’s Right Media Deception
It's Ben Edelman time again! We haven't actually highlighted his research for a considerble amount of time. Infact, it's been months if not six months. Ben Edelman; "Yahoo's Right Media ad marketplace features widespread ads exactly designed to d
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Rogue Antivirus Software and Batman Search Results
Random title I know. And by that title you should have a pretty decent idea where it came from. Paperghost (aka Chris Boyd): "If you go hunting for free Batman games (probably not a good idea given what happened last time), then you'll see someth
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MLB.com and malware adverts (Updated)
It appears MLB.com has malware adverts on it's site. Today Sunbelt highlighted this problem. Given the popularity of this site around the world, we recommend to stay away from it for the time being. As always, if you have visited this site and
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Rogue: Total Protect 2009
A new year and a newish rogue. It's taken us a while to blog about this mainly because of the festive season which has kept me busy. Total Protect 2009 (Click to Enlarge) Sunbelt inform us that: "This Rogue is unique, uninstaller.exe and the
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