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Old Microsoft Office for Mac vulnerability actively used to install malware

02

Apr

2012

Not surprisingly, more than two and a half years after a critical patch has been delivered, we see customers that didn’t update. And if we can see them, then also the bad guys see them as well. Even worse, we see such an issue affecting MacOS users who usually are not used to think to […]

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Critical Java exploit used to spread malware

29

Mar

2012

If you haven’t updated the Java installation you might be exposed to the newest exploit identified as CVE-2012-0507. The exploit allows the bypassing of Java’s sandbox, a mechanism that is designed partly to prevent attacks from malicious code. Through the exploit are currently Zeus-Trojans downloaded and silently installed in the system. Avira software detects this […]

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More time to clean up the DNSChanger malware

09

Mar

2012

We wrote about the DNSChanger malware and about the Avira tool which detects if your computer’s DNS settings were altered and restores the defaults in case they were changed by the malware. The FBI initially announced that the servers which were replacing the malicious ones will be shut down on March 8, 2012. This is […]

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