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- More disturbing long-tail content from Zango
- SunbeltBLOG asks "Is Zango partnering with a bunch of sickos? " I won't repeat much what's posted there because it's too disgusting, but here's the first part.unitedtoserve2005dotcom redirects to a hard core porn site, searchdotporn-infodotinfo, which offers “totally free porn videos”. These are Zango porn videos — you...
- Tags: Zango
- Blog posts 2006-08-14
- Microsoft's predatory pricing of security software
- SunbeltBLOG has posted an analysis of Microsoft's pricing for their new security products, OneCare and Antigen, calling Microsoft on predatory pricing aimed at putting the rest of the security vendors out of business. Even though Sunbelt Software is in the security business, too, I don't think this is sour grapes....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- Adware drama
- My apologies for the lack of blogging the past two days. Several things have happened that are worth mentioning. Ben Edelman published a piece on Claria ads being shown by pop-ups delivered through security exploits. In his usual style, Ben presents meticulous documentation including screenshots and a packet...
- Tags: adware, settlement, Marketing Law Blog
- Blog posts 2005-10-22
- Adware distraction
- I had all intentions of finishing the "spyware tricks' series but I got distracted this evening by adware. After reading Sunbeltblog's description of the Zango Search Assistant installation, I had to try it myself. Zango Search Assistant is 180solutions new version of the 180search Assistant. My...
- Tags: SunbeltBLOG, Zango Search Assistant, 180Solutions, active-X
- Blog posts 2005-09-21
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- MVP awards, Messenger Plus! and adware -- a good combination?
- A controversy has been raging in certain circles the last few days over a MVP award, which has now been rescinded, to an adware pusher known as Patchou, Cyril Paciullo, the author of Messenger Plus!, now known as Messenger Plus! Live. Ed Bott blogged about it here. Patchous devotees have...
- Tags: Messenger, Lop, Patchou, Messenger Plus!
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
- Spyware pushers cash in big on zero day exploit
- I expect that most readers have already read about the latest zero day exploit, Microsoft Vector Graphics Rendering Library Buffer Overflow, discovered by Adam Thomas of the Sunbelt Software research team on Monday. I'm not going into detail on it -- there is plenty of information about the exploit already,...
- Tags: exploit
- Blog posts 2006-09-20
- Engaged in marketing adware and anti-adware
- Here's a lesson in Conflict of Interest 101. A new so-called adware removal program hit the net recently -- literally hit the net as in being downloaded through exploits and bundled with other nasty-ware like DollarRevenue and Look2Me. This program is called AdwareFinder. Take a close look at the page...
- Tags: EngageMARKETING, NAI, DollarRevenue
- Blog posts 2006-06-27
- Spyware news
- My apologies for the lack of blogging recently. Here are a few good places to keep up with the spyware news, sites that I read on a daily basis, SunbeltBLOG, Vitalsecurity, SecurityFix, Ben Edelman and others listed in my blogroll on this page.Last week I was at Tech Ed in...
- Tags: Zango, Hotbar
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- 180solutions sponsors Yapbrowser and... child porn?
- My head is swimming and I feel ill. I just read the blogs about 180solutions' latest -- Yapbrowser, installed from 180's servers no less, that directs all search requests to child porn sites. And this from a company that has made countless claims of cleaning up their act....
- Tags: Yapbrowser
- Blog posts 2006-04-17
- DirectRevenue's dirty laundry is out of the closet and does it ever stink
- Two days ago DirectRevenue was hit with a lawsuit by New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. The 76 page Affirmation of Justin Brookman PDF outlined the outrageous practices of DirectRevenue including evidence of their knowledge that the software was being installed without user consent, evidence showing DirectRevenue was closely...
- Tags: DirectRevenue
- Blog posts 2006-04-06
- SpywareQuake - newest rogue, replacing SpyFalcon and SpyAxe
- Since I first heard about SpywareQuake, late yesterday afternoon, less than 24 hours ago, I've seen dozens of complaints about it already. SpywareQuake is being installed without notice or consent, hijacks the desktop and pops up a warning from the system tray that the machine is infected with spyware. It...
- Tags: SpywareQuake
- Blog posts 2006-03-25
- Claria quits adware
- Claria announced today that the company will be out of the adware business by the end of the second quarter. In April Claria will launch the beta version of PersonalWebSM, a "next generation platform designed to provide consumers with a highly personalized Internet experience." I don't have any details on...
- Tags: adware, Claria Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effort
- Give Microsoft an 'A' for effortA technological fix for social engineering?An attack on the site or anything else set up by the phisher is likely to be a case of barn door locking.As you wrote:And thirdly phishing attacks use elaborate social engineering to induce you to hand over your credentials...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Part-of Microsoft, phishing, phishing Web site, Microsoft Corp., redirector
- Discussion threads 2006-03-21
- Live in action: botnet, fake Windows sites and keylogger
- This has been occupying a lot of my attention since Friday. It started off with a message at my SpywareWarrior forum from Adam Piggott of Proactive Computing, about a spam email screenshot he received purporting to be from Microsoft. The email had a link to a supposed Windows update site,...
- Tags: trojan horse, trojan downloader
- Blog posts 2006-03-12
- New rogue anti-spyware and SpySheriff clone
- These rogue anti-spyware programs seem to multiply like rabbits. Just 2 days ago I wrote about Spy-Shield, an anti-spware app that installs adware from BestOffersNetwork Then yesterday SunbeltBLOG featured another new rogue anti-spyware app named BraveSentry. The Sunbelt researchers found a domain running exploits and force installing not just one...
- Tags: anti-spyware
- Blog posts 2006-03-09
- 180solutions wrap up
- Last week 180solutions was in the news again due to another nonconsensual installation discovered and blogged by Ben Edelman. I wrote about it here and here but didn't get a chance due to traveling again to blog the rest of the story. 180 blogged their "mea culpa" admitting the first...
- Tags: 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-02-27
- 180solutions responds - questions need answers
- Yesterday I reported on another nonconsensual install of 180solutions that was discovered and blogged by spyware expert Ben Edelman. Some might wonder why the big deal - after all, 180solutions has a long history of illegal forced installations and problematic business practices as documented in the CDT's 91 page complaint...
- Tags: 180Solutions
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- Extremely critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit released
- Heise online is reporting that a new critical vulnerability for Mac OS X has been discovered and it appears to have ramifications beyond the Safari brows thanks to SANS and SunbeltBLOG for the link. The problem is severe because a user simply needs to visit a malicious website and...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS X, SAFARI
- Blog posts 2006-02-21
- SpyAxe replacement: SpyFalcon
- The name SpyAxe, top rogue anti-spsyware app of 2005, brings up anger and frustration for its many victims but now SpyFalcon has burst on the scene looking like a replacement for SpyAxe. SpyFalcon, just like SpyAxe, is being installed along with trojans through exploits. A screenshot can be seen here...
- Tags: SpyFalcon, Spyaxe
- Blog posts 2006-02-14
- Websense report of 15 million malicious websites contradicts University of Washington study
- According to the University of Washington study I blogged about yesterday, the number of spyware sites decreased by 93% from May 2005 to October 2005, but today Websense issued a press release that indicates otherwise.During 2005, software vulnerabilities were increasingly exploited by malicious websites hosting malcode, and the Websense Master...
- Tags: Web site, spyware, Websense Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
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