Downloadable here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=671355c2-4002-4671-8619-95c96c8a897f&displaylang=en&tm The worldwide average was malware removal from 1 out of every 123 Windows-based computers in the second half of 2007. Summary - Australia During each month in the...
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06-23-2008
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These criminals, whoever they are, have absolutely no shame. I thought that they were the scum of the earth when they impersonated Oxfam; now they are getting their malvertizements onto popular chidren's sites. As reported by Kimberley - the malvertizements have been reported to RealMedia: openad...
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06-11-2008
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Affected versions are 9.0.124.0 and 9.0.115.0. The best analysis that I've seen so far is at SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29386/info The frightening thing about this alert is that the vulnerability is being actively exploited, with tens of thousands of web sites being compromised...
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05-28-2008
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A new style Dot Tunes advertisement: The adopstools results are here: http://www.adopstools.net/index.asp?page=quicklink&id=r60Siyiw02bZgpaa When the SWF is displayed on a system it hits the following URLs: traveltray.com/crossdomain.xml and traveltray.com/stats.php?u={{removed}}&campaign=ofdidactic...
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05-28-2008
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Ok, there are a lot of people out there who are upset at being overcharged and defrauded by bucksbill.com. Just check out the comments here and here . Unfortunately, people are also emailing me directly because they (mistakenly) believe that I and/or this blog are associated with the fraudsters. For...
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05-20-2008
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I received this alert via email: " My girlfriend was surfing boston.com last night and she landed on some nasty code that redirected her to that classic alert bos in the lower left hand corner of the screen. This time is was for XPShield which is widely known as rogue. Anyway I had known that you...
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05-20-2008
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SEATTLE – A 21-year-old Scottsdale, Ariz., man accused of coercing consumers to buy software that actually turned their computers into spamming machines agreed to a settlement that substantially restricts how he markets software in the future, the Washington Attorney General’s Office announced today...
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05-20-2008
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I am pleased to advise that one of the malvertizements that was appearing at photobucket.com, being the Tokyo Drift malvertizement being distrubted via adbureau.net, has been removed from circulation. As far as I know, the other malvertizements, hosted by atlas-ads.com, may still be in circulation. The...
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05-14-2008
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Photobucket has been mentioned several times on this blog because of malvertizements appearing on the site. The most recent outbreak is proving to be problematic, to say the least. Photobucket have been advised several times that there are malvertizements appearing on the web site. Photobucket have been...
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05-13-2008
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Several comments have been posted to my blog recently about a malvertizement problem at mininova.org: http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/03/23/1550824.aspx#1601871 http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive/2008/03/23/1550824.aspx#1602159 http://msmvps.com/blogs/spywaresucks/archive...
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05-09-2008
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