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Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojan

Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojanRe: DDOShttp://www.analogstereo.com/maserati_owners_manual.htmRE: Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojanhttp://www.analogstereo.com/maserati_owners_manual.htm

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, distributed denial of service, Spyware fighter, DollarRevenue, fighter, trojan horse, spyware

Discussion threads 2008-05-09

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Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter

Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...

Tags: Job, Malware, Bot, Malware Bot, PRIVMSG, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-07-16

Talking malware with Eugene Kaspersky

MOSCOW -- Amidst growing chatter that the anti-virus/anti-spyware market is gasping for air, a veteran virus fighter says desktop security products must add new protection mechanisms to keep pace with aggressive online criminals. Eugene Kaspersky, founder/CEO of 10-year-old Kaspersky Lab, says next-generation anti-malware...

Tags: Kaspersky Lab, Malware, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Grisoft offers free rootkit fighting tool

Grisoft offers free rootkit fighting toolBetter late than neverToo bad they didn't come out with this a year ago. It would have saved me a hard drive and a reformat, after the Sony fiasco. Not to mention the files Sony cost me.Grisoft hits another home runI like--no, love Grisoft's Anti-Virus...

Tags: Rootkits, tool, Grisoft, rootkit

Discussion threads 2007-04-11

Spam fighter hit with $11 million judgment

Spam fighter hit with $11 million judgmentMore proof the judicial system in America does not work.The criminals know they have the upper hand and they exploit every opportunity available to misuse the judicial system in America. I hope those with the proper means take down e360 and all the other...

Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spam Fighter, blacklist, judgement, spammer

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

The perpetual malware distribution site lives on

In the course of my work, I see or hear about a lot of sites used for phishing and for distribution of malware. There are teams of people working constantly toward getting these shut down, but some just keep distributing malware even after the ISP/hosting company is notified. Security expert...

Tags: Security expert Jose Nazario, Coulumb, malware

Blog posts 2006-06-23

Spyware fighter under DDoS attack by DollarRevenue trojan

My good friend and colleague in the spyware fighting business, Patrick Jordan, aka Webhelper on the forums, has been under a DDoS attack since June 16 at his website, webhelper4u.com. I'm not linking to his site in order to conserve his bandwidth. Here's what he posted.Updated: 19 June, 2006...

Tags: DollarRevenue.com, distributed denial of service, anti-spyware

Blog posts 2006-06-19

Windows Defender Beta 2 vs. spyware

Windows Defender Beta 2 vs. spywareTraces or Apps ?Interesting. Is that "65% to 75%" number the traces or actual Spyware apps that were prevented from running again? I tend to subscribe to the theory that knocking out the spyware app is what counts, not necessarily all of the...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Suzi, Microsoft Windows, EXPLORERMENUEXT&Define, Microsoft Corp., spyware, anti-spyware, Defender

Discussion threads 2006-03-06

CA eTrust EZ Antivirus 7.1

CA eTrust EZ Antivirus 7.1 is a reliable virus fighter that costs a few dollars less than industry-leading McAfee VirusScan 2006 and Norton AntiVirus 2006. We particularly like its new interface, which is vastly better than that of its ugly, hard-to-navigate predecessor. In CNET Labs tests, EZ Antivirus's scan speed...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Computer Associates International Inc., CA eTrust, EZ Antivirus, spyware

Product reviews 2006-02-10

Beat off-shore embedded developers by assuming the high-end, says Green Hills CEO

Dan O'Dowd, founder and CEO of Green Hills Software, rarely shies away from controversial positions and straight talk about them. He's now focused his attention on the trend toward increased off-shoring of software developers' jobs, especially embedded software development. What's needed, he told a gathering of...

Tags: Green Hills, U.S. says O'Dowd

Blog posts 2005-11-07

Beat off-shore embedded developers by assuming the high-end, says Green Hills CEO

Dan O'Dowd, founder and CEO of Green Hills Software, rarely shies away from controversial positions and straight talk about them. He's now focused his attention on the trend toward increased off-shoring of software developers' jobs, especially embedded software development. What's needed, he told a gathering of analysts today...

Tags: Linux, Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Development tools, UNIX, Dan O'Dowd, Green Hills, Eclipse

Blog posts 2005-11-07

Spyware Tricks

Spyware TricksDavid Fish is my new herohttp://www.livejournal.com/users/valiskeogh/882720.htmli love him. and i've emailed him about information on how to join the class action suits against direct revenue and 1800solutions.EVERYONE needs to joinValisCEOValis EnterprisesAN operating systemthat is developed to be easy to use and easy to program allows this "perfect storm"...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, spyware, operating system, security, security hole, SpySheriff

Discussion threads 2005-09-20