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Fake mobile Facebook site blocks AntiVirus products

23

Sep

2011

A link that was blacklisted today on malwareblacklist.com got my attention: mfacebook.co.uk The Registrant’s address is even deceiving as it seems to match the “.uk” domain: 5 East Street MANNINGTREE CO11 5YX United Kingdom In fact, browsing to that link redirects you to: which is the official mobile URL for Facebook’s site. So, is this […]

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Doing the Zbot spot; playing gotcha with a botnet

15

Sep

2011

Greetings Internet! This month (carefully hidden under the Win32/Bamital blanket), employing the old adage ‘fight fire with fire’, we decided to fight sneakiness with sneakiness and quietly slipped a fairly major Win32/Zbot update into MSRT. “Zbot” I hear you say? Yes, it’s still around and kicking. Despite Win32/Zbot (officially self-titled with the oh-so-ego-inflating ‘Zeus’ moniker, despite […]

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Windows 8 to have built-in anti-virus – there’s good and bad news

14

Sep

2011

Microsoft will ship Windows 8 with built-in anti-virus software. That’s the big news that is no doubt being discussed furtively at the watercoolers of computer security companies around the world today. What will it mean to them? A quick glance at Twitter reveals that some people already have pretty good ideas about how the news […]

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