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Fake free AVG download sites

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Oct

2011

Fake antivirus sites are a very common way to trick people into installing malware on their computers. Another technique is to repackage popular software with adware or malware, and offer them for download. AVG is a popular Antivirus vendor that offers a free version of it’s product at http://free.avg.com/. Rather than getting money by bundling […]

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MSRT October ’11: EyeStye

13

Oct

2011

This month, the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) targets two families: Win32/EyeStye and Win32/Poison. EyeStye (aka ‘SpyEye’) is a family of trojans that steals information, targeting authentication data used for online banking such as passwords and digital certificates. The method it employs is called “form grabbing” which involves the interception of webform data submitted to […]

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Patch Internet Explorer Now

12

Oct

2011

Yesterday was Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday for the month of October. There were a total of eight new security bulletins–not too many, but enough to keep IT admins busy for a while. While most of the vulnerabilities addressed are not imminent threats, security experts are virtually unanimous that patching Internet Explorer should be priority one. First, […]

Category Security Written by PC World - Security Alert 0 Comments

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