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  • An Online ticket?!?

    What a surprise... This morning I was happily working at the office, hhmm... okay, from home..., when Outlook notified me that I had received an email. When I checked it was from an unknown company USA3000 Airlines. When I read the email they even had a ticket for me and had charged the credit card for...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Mon, Sep 22 2008
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  • Olympic attachment?

    Not only the Olympic games have started, but also the malware games related to the Olympics. One of the latest is that if you receive an attachment named as: "ioc_guidelines_for_persons_accredited_at_the_xxix_olympiad.pdf" then delete this immediately. If you open it then it could execute a...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Aug 8 2008
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  • Mass Hack Attack

    Really cool video at the McAfee's Avert Labs blog site about the latest mass hack attack at phpBB web sites. See how it looks like from an end user's perspective: Mass Hack Attack . Source: McAfee Avert Labs Blog .
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Mar 14 2008
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  • Email with subject: "Israel Just Have Started World War III"

    Late last night I found a strange email in my email Inbox; from a person I didn't know. It even had an attachment called: "News.exe". I could even save it to my hard drive without any antivirus program jumping up. Decided to submit it to McAfee's Avert Labs and a few minutes later I...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Tue, Apr 10 2007
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  • McAfee added detection for fake IE7

    McAfee has added detection for the fake IE7 email. See their writeup: W32/Grum . You need at least DAT version 4996. So check if your version of McAfee is up-to-date. For Symantec see: W32.Grum.A
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Sat, Mar 31 2007
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  • Beware of fake IE7 Beta email

    There's a email out there, which says that it is coming from admin@microsoft with an attachment called: "IE7.0.exe". The subject of this email is: "Internet Explorer 7 Downloads" and it shows you an image of an IE7 Beta 2 download. Do NOT click on this image! If you do you are offered to download a trojan...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Fri, Mar 30 2007
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  • BootMerlin virus

    This is a virus written in MS VisualBasic that modifies the C:\Boot.ini file to display a Spanish message at boot time: Upon execution, it can also be displaying a Wizard animation "speaking" in the Spanish language: W32/BootMerlin can make copies of itself bearing the MS Word icon, in the following...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Thu, Feb 22 2007
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  • Be aware for Valentine Day's e-greetings emails!

    If you receive emails with variable subjects such as: " Together You and I , Everyone Needs Someone or Cyber Love , then delete them immediately. They're ususally sent by a female using different names. The attached file that contains the worm is an executable file with names such as flash postcard.exe...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Sat, Feb 10 2007
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  • Critical 0-Day Internet Explorer Exploit Discovered In The Wild

    A lot of web sites are already talking about it. There's a critical 0-day exploit discovered in the wild for Internet Explorer. According to the Microsoft TechNet web site, it's a vulnerability in the Microsoft Windows implementation of Vector Markup Language (VML). Microsoft is aware of the...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Wed, Sep 20 2006
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  • Microsoft word document spam

    McAfee Avert Labs has recently seen spammers start to use Microsoft Word documents and HTML attachments to deliver their advertising payload. By moving the advertising content, most importantly the URL link, into an attached document rather than the body of the email message, spammers are able to evade...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Tue, Sep 5 2006
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  • Santa IM Worm Installs Rootkit Payload

    A new Christmas-themed worm attack is underway, delivering an offensive rootkit payload over the AOL, MSN, Windows Messenger, ICQ and Yahoo instant messaging networks. The worm, identified as IM.GiftCom.All, was discovered by researchers at IMLogic Inc.'s Threat Center spreading via IM and attempting...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Thu, Dec 22 2005
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  • Latest Virus Threat: Zafi.D

    Zafi.D Aliases: Email-Worm.Win32.Zafi.d Nocard.A@mm W32.Erkez.D@mm W32/Zafi-D W32/Zafi.D.worm W32/Zafi.d@MM Win32.Zafi.D Win32.Zafi.D!ZIP Win32/Zafi.D.Worm WORM_ZAFI.D Zafi.D F-SECURE Zafi.D Description: A new variant of Zafi worm - Zafi.D is spreading. While the original Zafi.A uses only Hungarian,...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Thu, Dec 16 2004
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  • MyDoom seeks to destroy antivirus firms

    Antivirus companies are perplexed by a spate of recent viruses that contain messages in which the writers threaten to attack them. Worm writers are threatening to attack antivirus companies F-Secure, Symantec, Trend Micro and McAfee. In the latest version of MyDoom--MyDoom.AE--the authors embedded a...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Tue, Oct 19 2004
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  • W32/Zafi.b@MM

    W32/Zafi.b@MM (McAfee/NAI) Virus Characteristics: This is a mass-mailing worm that constructs messages using its own SMTP engine, spoofing the From: address. It also attempts to propagate via P2P, via copying itself to folders on the local system (containing "share" or "upload" in the folder name). While...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Sat, Jun 12 2004
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  • The Korgo Family

    W32.Korgo is a worm that spreads via the Internet by exploiting the LSASS vulnerability, as described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS04-011 , in remote computers. This vulnerability is critical for Windows XP/2000 operating systems that are not properly updated. W32.Korgo listens to the TCP ports 113...
    Posted to MVP Jubo Security Blog by jubo on Mon, May 31 2004
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