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  • A frightening tale of computer infection and its consequences

    “ It all started when I wanted to get more performance out of my video card. I download the latest drivers and included this virus. ” Yep, that one simple act turned into an infection nightmare lasting three weeks.  I’m hoping Micky will work out exactly where he got the drivers from, and let us...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Wed, Apr 29 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits

  • ALERT: Please treat the domain statisticsishere.com and measurehits.com with extreme caution

    I received this email a short while ago: “ We have been getting a lot of ads accessing scripts from this domain statisticsishere.com. So far there is no malware redirect or download but this domain looks suspicious having been created less than a week. ” I have to agree that the domain is suspicious...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, Mar 9 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing, Fraudware

  • Now this is scary…. :(

    We can only hope that the following was a joke – if not, the implications are very worrying… “ Our computers at the hospital are crashing all the time now. There are so many extra programs, virus and outdated programs running that the operating system is unable to handle them. Their power supplies can...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Sun, Mar 1 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits

  • Interesting comment – Best Western malvertizing

    The comment was posted here .  I quote: “ My company was approached by a client claiming to represent Best Western with a lower tech version of this.  We were give a static JPG, third one from the top and instructions to paste some odd-looking Javascript with the image.  I ran the code...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Thu, Feb 26 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing, Fraudware

  • Please do NOT advise your users to turn off automatic updates because of *one* problem update

    The latest “Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows” ( KB960715 ) is causing problems for some third party applications that are dependent on the disabled controls. One application that has problems, “ Office Tools Professional ”, is advising its users to not only uninstall the Killbit patch (thereby...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Sat, Feb 14 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits

  • Lifestyles of the Rich and Infamous, and an update about the status of the FTC versus Innovative Marketing et al lawsuit

    I'll include some history of events so that you can get a sense of perspective with regards to the time frame around these events.   It is especially important to note that the FTC lawsuit is not the only problem that Jain is facing.  He has been indicted in the State of California...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Tue, Feb 10 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing, Fraudware

  • I just knew I'd find DIRECTI in there somewhere...

    Sunbelt reports that there is a new fraudware domain, being ie-security.com . Let's look at the domain details for ie-security.com: ICANN Registrar: BIZCN.COM, Inc (a name that is appearing far too often in association with malware) Date created: 22 January 2009 NS1.IE-SECURITY.COM NS2.IE-SECURITY...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, Feb 2 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Fraudware

  • More information about Olympic Media shenanigans

    Ok, when the hijack triggered via the Olympic Media supplied javascript URL that I mentioned in my previous article triggers successfully we hit: admediastats.com/ts/in.cgi?{{redacted}} From there we end up at sg12scanner.com/{{redacted}} From there to dlsg09.com/sysgd09/install.php?track_id={{redacted...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, Feb 2 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing

  • Olympic Media are still active

    I’ve warned about Olympic Media several times – they continue to be active. The latest reports indicate they are claiming to be operating out of Canada and are supplying javascript code referring to admin.securityclick.net as follows:     Other domains being used are onlinepromostats.com and...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Mon, Feb 2 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Vulnerabilities, viruses and exploits, Malvertizing

  • DIRECTI responds re inaccurate WHOIS complaint time frames

    15 days, so they say:   My response? “ This is not good enough.  The domains can be used to facilitate fraud for 15 days? At the very least, posnerpromotion.com should have been isolated before now. posnerpromotion.com redirects to posneradv.com, AND posneradv.com is displaying an alert warning...
    Posted to Spyware Sucks (Weblog) by sandi on Tue, Jan 27 2009
    Filed under: Security, safety and privacy on the Internet, Malvertizing
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