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Just recently, I logged on to my Facebook account and saw that a couple of people on my Friends list had posted something about a free $250 gift card from Costco, similar to this: When you click the link, Facebook asks you if you’re sure that the link is not spam. If you choose “not […]

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The Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two prevalent families in this July 2011 release, Win32/Tracur and Win32/Dursg. Both families share common functionality that monitors user web search queries and redirects to a malicious URL to display advertisements or download more malware. It affects users of web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera and […]

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There’s been talk of a new threat called “Sunspot“, which we detect as Win32/Ambler.A (click to read more in our encyclopedia). Like several others in the AV industry, we feel that this threat is not a new ‘crimeware kit’, and is instead just a new variant of a much older threat known as Ambler (also […]

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