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There was a flash, and then my startpage was gone.

27
Mar
2013

We recently came across the file 1ac150ddb964722b6b7c96808763b3e4d0472daf during the course of regular research. We detect this file as Trojan:Win32/Preflayer.A. The file had been distributed with the file name FlashPlayer.exe and not surprisingly, when executed, it shows the following GUI, partly written in Turkish:  Obviously, it’s disguised as an Adobe Flash Player 11 installer. The text section of […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

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New Apple OS X Malware: Fake Adobe Flash Installer

28
Sep
2011

A new attack against Apple Mac OS X Lion (10.7) has been detected by Intego.  The threat is a trojan, dubbed Flashback, installed via a fake Adobe Flash installer downloaded from a third party site. As with the MacDefender and Revir malware the Flashback attack uses social engineering to entice the user to download then install […]

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