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

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

Fake missing plugin warnings used for spam/spyware

Jan

2012

A key element for a successful spam/malicious page is to establish trust with the visitor so that he will perform the requested actions. Users trust their browser, but not necessarily the content (i.e. web page) that it displays. A trick that I’ve blogged about earlier, is to fool the user into thinking that certain elements […]

Category Security Written by Zscaler Research 0 Comments

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