Tag: Malware
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Google launches phishing blacklist api
I see on the Google Security Blog that Google have launched a Safe Browsing api. In other words, Google are making available its dynamic blacklist of phishing and malware sites so ISPs and web app coders can check against it. This should help ensure unwitting users are notified before they browse to to unsafe sites…
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Users are 'stupid' – Microsoft
I wrote a post over a year ago about how I deal with PCs which have become infected with malware (viruses/trojans/worms/rootkits, etc.): what I do, is to re-install the OS – more often recently it is XP, turn off System Restore, install XP SP2, Microsoft Anti Spyware, Spybot, Adaware, and AVG… or consider formatting the…
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Blogs used to infect PCs with spyware and malware
I note a story on the BBC Technology site which says Spyware and Malware authors have copped on to the popularity of blogs and are now using them as vectors to host spyware and malware to infect people lured to the blog. I’m surprised it took so long for them to come up with this.…
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How to rid a PC of viruses and malware
My parents have asked me to look at their neighbours PC – it has started ‘acting funny’ and “they think it might have a virus”, I was told. “Uh oh”, I thought. Here we go again. If you are the local IT guru you know this feeling well. And, is it just me or is…
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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…