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The state of spyware according to Webroot

Webroot released its quarterly report on spyware today, claiming spyware infection rates are at their highest since 2004. During the second quarter of 2006, Webroot researchers found that 89 percent of consumer PCs were infected with an average of 30 pieces of spyware – a slight increase from the...

Tags: spyware, Webroot Software Inc., Zlob

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Additional Resources

SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition 4.31.1000 (Windows)

SuperAntiSpyware, a next generation product, with its Multi-Dimensional Scanning and Process Interrogation Technology will detect spyware and remove over 1,000,000 pests such as Vundo, ZLob, SmitFraud, WinFixer, VirusRay, and VirusHeat. Repair broken Internet connections, desktops, registry editing, and task manager. The program provides complete and custom scanning of hard drives,...

Tags: Registry, Microsoft Windows, SuperAntiSpyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Spyware, Cyberthreats, Rootkits, Viruses And Worms, Security

Software downloads 2009-11-23

The Web's most dangerous keywords to search for

Which is the most dangerous keyword to search for using public search engines these days? It's "screensavers" with a maximum risk of 59.1 percent, according to McAfee's recently released report "The Web's Most Dangerous Search Terms". Upon searching for 2,658 unique popular keywords and phrases across 413,368...

Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Web, Cybercriminal, Keyword, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-05-27

USAID.gov compromised, malware and exploits served

The Azerbaijan section at the United States Agency for International Development (azerbaijan.usaid.gov) has been compromised and is embedded with malware and exploits serving scripts approximately around the 1st of March. The malicious script is taking advantage of a series of redirects which are dynamically loading live exploits, or rogue security...

Tags: Malware, Cybercriminal, USAID.gov, Cn, Cn/check/check.php, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Malware author greets Microsoft's Windows Defender team

A Russian malware author with involvement in the Zlob malware family, one of the most prolific malware families in 2008 thanks to its successful mimicking of video codecs, has left a message for the Windows Defender team inside a sample analyzed by French researchers. The message is a follow-up to...

Tags: Team, Malware, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Malware Author, Malware Family, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-14

Talkback Tuesday: Apple's AV non-announcement

Talkback Tuesday: Apple's AV non-announcementI think.....You nailed it. Many just don't understand that no matter how secure the system is, if you have the ability to allow something to install, the OS will go right ahead and install it with a few warnings maybe, but we live in a "yes"...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Operating systems, Talkback Tuesday, malware, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-16

Microsoft's Live launches malware detection service for webmasters

Playing catch-up with Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Google's warnings for potentially hackable sites, and Yahoo's SearchScan introduced through their partnership with McAfee, Microsoft's Live Search has updated their Webmaster tools to offer detection for embedded malware. Moreover, as a late entrant they simply had to differentiate, and they did it...

Tags: Webmaster, Malware, Microsoft Corp., Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-11-26

Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kit

Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kitAre hackers just a little evil or---do they use bazookas too---RE: Cybercriminals release Christmas themed web malware exploitation kitHow about telling us WHICH 6 of the 37 AVs could identify this junk? And the "product marketing materials" indicate that they can exploit even...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Chrismas, Christmas-themed web malware exploitation kit, Christmas-themed, exploitation kit, web malware exploitation kit, cybercriminal, computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-25

Cybercriminals syndicating Google Trends keywords to serve malware

In an underground ecosystem that is anything but old fashioned when it comes to abusing legitimate web services, cybecriminals have started exploiting the traffic momentum, and by monitoring the peak traffic for popular search queries using Google's Trends, are syndicating the keywords in order to acquire the traffic and direct...

Tags: Google Inc., Blog, Malware, News Story, Blogging, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-10-02

Another Trojan hits Mac OS X

Another Trojan hits Mac OS XThis is good for AppleI would say that malware counts are the [b]best[/b] indication of desktop PC marketshare so congrats Apple, you really must be doing well now that you are being targeted so much! I'll leave you with a sobering thought:It is easy to...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Microsoft Windows, Desktops, Operating systems, Viruses and worms, airline industry, trojan horse, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most

200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the mostJust a guessI would suspect that most of the china sites are owned by American spammers,malware owners.I say we just cut China's segment off...Until the Chinese government seems to give a damn about poision food, poison web sites and rampant piracy, I...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Channel management, Web site development, Spam, Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, Looking Back, web malware, software, Web

Discussion threads 2008-06-25

Facebook vulnerable to critical XSS, could lead to malware attacks

Facebook, the second most popular social networking site in the U.S according to Nielsen, is currently vulnerable to a critical XSS, allowing the injection and execution of malicious scripts within the popular site. As you can seen in the attached screenshot, the harmless injected scripts in the demonstration successfully load,...

Tags: Facebook, XSS, Malware, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Security, Viruses And Worms, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-23

A free and easy way to test your Wi-Fi security

A free and easy way to test your Wi-Fi securityDon't Bother...It found 3 critical errors and gave me a 52%:1. No AntiVirus Software. WRONG - I have NOD32 installed and running.2. Windows Update not set to automatic. WRONG - Windows update is indeed set to automatically...

Tags: Wireless security, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi security, Wi-Fi, Microsoft Windows Update, security, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-03-13

F-Secure: More than 100-150 malware variants targeting Macs

The idea that Macs and the Mac OS would somehow remain invisible to hackers despite enjoying huge influx of new users was just too good to be true.  To be honest, the only people who really believed that hackers wouldn't start targeting the Mac platform were Mac users looking for...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Malware, F-Secure Corp., Hacker, Desktops, Security, Hardware, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2007-12-06

Malware finds a new home

Malware finds a new homePlease clarify?"The infamous Zlob adware has appeared on YouTube masquerading as a YouTube video object. When a user selects the Zlob-compromised video they are bombarded with advertisements.Alas, Malware wasn't a one-time problem for YouTube. In another example, a video on YouTube called "After World Episode 6"...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Corporate communications, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, YouTube Inc., malware, YouTube Video, video, trojan horse

Discussion threads 2007-06-28

SpyAxe anti-spyware installed by trojan

SpyAxe anti-spyware installed by trojanSpyAxe WhoIs Info = BOGUSThis probably comes as no surprise whatsoever to you, but the WhoIs info for SpyAxe is totally bogus. Speaking as someone who lives in the Puget Sound area, any address containing "187th Ave" (regardless of what "direction" might follow it) would...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Google Inc., anti-spyware, trojan horse, Spyaxe

Discussion threads 2005-12-19

SpyAxe anti-spyware installed by trojan

Supposed anti-spyware program SpyAxe is installed by a trojan named zlob.cy (aka Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Zlob) according to F-Secure. SpyAxe showed up on the scene about two months ago and has earned quite a name for itself. SpyAxe manages to appear on users' desktops without any notice or consent, as seen here, with...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Cyberthreats, trojan horse, Spyaxe, infection, anti-spyware

Blog posts 2005-12-17