Posts Tagged ‘installing software’

New Flashback Variant Changes Tack to Infect Macs

Mar

2012

Intego has discovered a new variant of the Flashback malware, Flashback.N, which has been changed since our blog post showing how Flashback used Twitter as a command and control center. This new variant changes the files it installs and their location: the files we specified in our blog post of February 23 are no long […]

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Fake Camera+ app hits the iPhone App Store

Jan

2012

How much trust do you put in Apple’s stewardship of the App Store – the online marketplace where you can download apps for your iPhone or iPad? Chances are that you don’t think twice about installing software from the App Store – after all, all the software up there has been verified by “Apple”, right? […]

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Easy Money: Program:Win32/Pameseg (part 2)

Nov

2011

In the previous post, we gave an introduction to how file partnership programs work and how they make money off unsuspecting users by charging them for installing software that is actually free. In this post, we’ll walk you through a sample of these “paid archives”. The following “paid archive” simulates the appearance of the Adobe […]

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