Category: Malware
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Cracker Targets Ad Servers with IE Exploit
Falk eSolutions is an Ad Serving company who according to their website “is now the third-largest ad management solution worldwide, serving over 12 billion ad impressions per month”. On 20/11/04 some clever cracker broke into one of their load balancing servers that handles ad deliveries and successfully loaded exploit code on servers serving ads on…
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irc/backdoor.sdbot in Win XP Home
A friend’s pc was infected with the irc/backdoor.sdbot trojan recently and I cleaned it out – eventually. This is a tricky little trojan which hides in the System Volume folder (where the System Restore info is held) as well as the Windows/Winnt folder. Killing the trojan using anti-virus software only gets rid of it until…
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Security center could not change your automatic updates settings
I was working on a friends PC the other day. It had Windows XP Home on it and several viruses! After cleaning out the viruses, I updated the PC to XP SP 2 to get the security advantages that the service pack confers. However, on re-starting the PC after the install, the Security Centre gave…