Are the AntiVirus companies writing the Viruses?
Short answer: NO Long answer: a very good one provided by Randy Abrams Thanks for the great article, Randy !
Category: Cybersecurity
PayPal security warning email with malware
PayPal security warning email with malware There is a new wave of emails pretending to come from Paypal having a ZIP archive attached. The email says that your PayPal account have been accessed by a third party and, in order to protected your account, PayPal has been locked.The user is invited to review the report […]
The Firefox Plugins – reloaded
After writing this article ( http://techblog.avira.com/2010/01/04/firefox-extension-updates/en/ ) and after Dirk’s info , it finally happened to Firefox: They published malicious plugins It was just a matter of time 😉 Short link
Project Honeypot – 1 Billion Spammers Served and more…
Project Honeypot published this nice article which contains all kind of data and graphics here: 1 Billion Spammers Served All nice and shiny, but I have a problem with this graphic: Notice that PayPal is about 1% … Our data, gathered by the URLCheck service, gives us completely different numbers: So, don’t believe everything what […]
Confiker again in the news – @Shadowserver:EU is bigger than you think guys
I have to confess, I never ever read anything on www.shadowserver.org and everything I write here is taken from this page from McAfee Avert Labs Blog Shadowserver names 183 country codes and 5994 autonomous systems with Conficker IP in their network space: * 1086 for the Russian Federation (RU) * 597 for the United States […]
Avert Labs — Malware “Experience” – DON’T
With a huge surprize I’ve read here that McAfee is teaching people how to play with Malware. I do not think that everybody needs to know this. Already too many script kiddies are doing this with catastrophic effects. http://www.mcafeefocus.com/focus09/sessions/GroupMeetings.aspx#avert2 Avert Labs — Malware Experience (By appointment only) Tuesday, Oct. 6 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm […]
Virus Bulletin 2009 Conference Reports
Day 1 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/24/vb-conference-day-1/en/ Day 2 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/25/vb-conference-day-2/en/ Day 3 : http://techblog.avira.com/2009/09/28/vb-conference-day-3/en/
Bundling reloaded… now with Adobe & McAfee
Did you update your Flash software in Firefox ? I did … And this is what i got: Not very nice, Adobe…
Opera Unite and Security
Have a look at the article that Dirk Knopp wrote in the Avira Techblog. This article was referenced here : http://www.h-online.com/security/Opera-says-Opera-Unite-web-server-is-not-a-security-problem–/news/113719 His concern is that a lot of malware can be now served directly from user’s computer. And he is right. Even more, if there is a flaw in the Opera and somebody can alter […]
Avira Techblog is online
At the beginning of this year Avira opened to the public the Technical blog: http://techblog.avira.com We publish there news which are too technical to be displayed on the www.avira.com page. I publish quite a lot things about Spam and Phishing. Have a look at it: http://techblog.avira.com There is also RSS Feed support: http://techblog.avira.com/feed/en/
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