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More software-related searches lead to malware

01
Dec
2011

Spammers have done a very good job a hijacking web searches related to buying software online. More than 90% of search results for “buy Microsoft Windows” and similar searches, lead to fake stores on major search engines. Not much has been done by the search engines to clean up these search results. Since the beginning […]

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Malware Uses New DLL Loading Technique – MS11-071

13
Oct
2011

It has been a year since we have witnessed a DLL hijacking technique which loads a malicious DLL that affects hundreds of programs. The method involves dropping a collection of normal files together with the malicious DLL from within a directory. We recently analyzed the following archive sample. Only the file “deskpan.dll” was detected as […]

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Bamm Bamm, Rubble.

14
Sep
2011

The family selected for addition to MSRT this month is Win32/Bamital. Win32/Bamital was first discovered in September 2009 and was able to intercept and modify queries performed by search engines such as AltaVista, Bing, Google and Yahoo. Win32/Bamital has evolved over a number of generations, employing a varying range of system modifications to ensure that […]

Category General Written by Microsoft Malware Protection Center 0 Comments

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